1740 in Russia
Incumbents
- Monarch – Anna (until {{OldStyleDate|28 October||17}}), Ivan VI (from {{OldStyleDate|28 October||17}}){{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-VI|title=Ivan VI emperor of Russia|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822010816/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-VI|archive-date=2019-08-22}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.saint-petersburg.com/royal-family/ivan-vi-and-anna-leopoldovna/|title=Biography of Emperor Ivan VI and Anna Leopoldovna|website=Saint-Petersburg.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822011508/http://www.saint-petersburg.com/royal-family/ivan-vi-and-anna-leopoldovna/|archive-date=2019-08-22}}
- Regent – Ernst Johann von Biron ({{OldStyleDate|28 October||17}} – {{OldStyleDate|20 November||9}}), Sovereign and Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna (since 20 November)
Events
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- January - The Ice House was built in St. Petersburg.
- 28 October - 2-months old Prince Ivan Antonovich succeeds Empress Anna of Russia as Ivan VI under the regency of Anna's favourite Ernst von Biron.
- 20 November - Biron was arrested by the guards led by Burkhard Christoph von Münnich
- The rulers of the northeast of the Middle Zhuz, including Ablai Khan, concluded an agreement on the Russian protectorate over the Middle Zhuz.
Births
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- 29 February - Thomas MacKenzie, admiral, founder of Sevastopol.
- 7 May - Nikolai Arkharov, Governor General of Moscow (1781–1784)
- 28 May - Fedot Shubin, architect
- {{OldStyleDate|23 August|1740|12 August}} - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia in 1740–41. (d. 1764)
- {{OldStyleDate|21 September|1740|10 September}} - Ivan Lepyokhin, Russian naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer. (d. 1802){{Cite web|url=https://www.prlib.ru/history/619556|title=РОДИЛСЯ ПУТЕШЕСТВЕННИК, ЕСТЕСТВОИСПЫТАТЕЛЬ ИВАН ИВАНОВИЧ ЛЕПЁХИН|date=2020-03-28|website=Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704155204/https://www.prlib.ru/history/619556|archive-date=2019-07-04|access-date=2020-03-28}}
Deaths
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- 8 July - Artemy Volynsky, Pyotr Yeropkin and Andrey Khrushchyov, statesmen (executed)
- 28 October - Anna, empress of Russia (born 1693){{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anna-empress-of-Russia|title=Anna empress of Russia|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821232526/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anna-empress-of-Russia|archive-date=2019-08-21}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.saint-petersburg.com/royal-family/anna-ioannovna/|title=Biography of Empress Anna of Russia|website=Saint-Petersburg.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821232855/http://www.saint-petersburg.com/royal-family/anna-ioannovna/|archive-date=2019-08-21}}
References
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