1740 in Russia
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Events from the year 1740 in Russia
Incumbents
Events
- 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
- 29 February - Thomas MacKenzie, admiral, founder of Sevastopol.
- 7 May - Nikolai Arkharov, Governor General of Moscow (1781â1784)
- 28 May - Fedot Shubin, architect
- 23 August [O.S. 12 August] 1740 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia in 1740â41. (d. 1764)[3][4]
- 21 September [O.S. 10 September] 1740 - Ivan Lepyokhin, Russian naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer. (d. 1802)[5]
Deaths
- 8 July - Artemy Volynsky, Pyotr Yeropkin and Andrey Khrushchyov, statesmen (executed)
- 28 October - Anna, empress of Russia (born 1693)[1][2]
