In the year 1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia, part of present day Ukraine (Jul 11), the song Rule, Britannia! is first performed in England (Aug 1), troops of the Dutch East Indian Company start the massacre of thousands of Chinese Indonesians in Batavia, present day Jakarta (Oct 9), Spain begins construction on Fort Matanzas on the Florida’s Atlantic coast to safeguard the strategic inlet of Matanzas, the southernmost access for boat travel between St. Augustine and Havana, Cuba – and all these fine people were born: Continue reading “Data for the 1740s”
Journeys of Life 