page_title: Timeline of the 18th century
section_title: 1740s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 18th century / 1740s
caption_attribution_description: English: The Battle of Culloden, oil on canvas, David Morier, 1746. Français&#160;: La bataille de Culloden, huile sur toile. Scène de bataille en couleur, uniformes rouges de l'armée royale à droite avec des bayonnettes, rebelles en désordre à gauche avec des épées, ciel couvert, nuit tombante, impression de fin de bataille
context_page_description: This is a timeline of the 18th century.
context_section_description: 1740: Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia.
  1740: Great Awakening, George Whitefield
  1740: The British captured St. Augustine, Florida but lose to the Spanish during the Siege of St. Augustine.
  1740–1741: Famine in Ireland kills ten percent of the population.
  1740–1748: War of the Austrian Succession.
  1740: 9 October, a massacre of Batavia's ethnic Chinese begins after they are suspected by the VOC of planning a rebellion; approximately 10,000 are killed and the Chinese quarter is burned.
  1741: Russians begin settling the Aleutian Islands.
  1741: Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery.
  1742: The rebellion of Juan Santos Atahualpa.
  1742: Marvel's Mill, the first water-powered cotton mill, begins operation in England.
  1743: The capital of the Sultanate of Mataram Kartasura fell under the Geger Pecinan uprising — Raden Mas Garendi (Sunan Kuning) led Chinese mercenaries in revolt against Pakubuwono II.
  1744: The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud.
  1744: The French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails.
  1744–1748: The First Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
  1745: Second Jacobite rising is begun by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland.
  1745: 17 February, Pakubuwono II establishes a new kraton in Sala village, along with Surakarta Sunanate.
  1747: Ahmed Shah Durrani founds the Durrani Empire in modern-day Afghanistan.
  1748: The Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession and First Carnatic War.
  1748–1754: The Second Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
caption: The extinction of the Scottish clan system came with the defeat of the clansmen at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.[11]
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