1740

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  – 1740s –  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1737 1738 1739 – 1740 – 1741 1742 1743

1740 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1740 MDCCXL
Ab urbe condita	2493
Armenian calendar	1189 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԹ
Assyrian calendar	6490
Balinese saka calendar	1661–1662
Bengali calendar	1147
Berber calendar	2690
British Regnal year	13 Geo. 2 – 14 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2284
Burmese calendar	1102
Byzantine calendar	7248–7249
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 4436 or 4376     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4437 or 4377
Coptic calendar	1456–1457
Discordian calendar	2906
Ethiopian calendar	1732–1733
Hebrew calendar	5500–5501
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1796–1797
- Shaka Samvat	1661–1662
- Kali Yuga	4840–4841
Holocene calendar	11740
Igbo calendar	740–741
Iranian calendar	1118–1119
Islamic calendar	1152–1153
Japanese calendar	Genbun 5 (元文５年)
Javanese calendar	1664–1665
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4073
Minguo calendar	172 before ROC 民前172年
Nanakshahi calendar	272
Thai solar calendar	2282–2283
Tibetan calendar	阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1866 or 1485 or 713     — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1867 or 1486 or 714

1740 (MDCCXL) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1740th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 740th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1740, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• God Save the Queen first performed.
• Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve writes and publishes the folk story Beauty and the Beast.