WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1740
Find out what all happened February to October 1740

Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia. (11. July 1740)

Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins. (20. October 1740)

Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java. (9. October 1740)

Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine. (13. June 1740)

A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear. (26. June 1740)

War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate HMS Princess. (8. April 1740)