1740
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| 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 | ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 1866 or 1485 or 713 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 1867 or 1486 or 714 |
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1740 (MDCCXL) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- God Save the Queen first performed.
- Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve writes and publishes the folk story Beauty and the Beast.