Contents

• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1740 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XV ^[1]
• British and Irish Monarch: George II ^[2]

Events

• 1740s: The Mandan Indians west of the Great Lakes begin to trade in horses descended from those brought to Texas by the Spanish. Itinerant Assiniboine Indians bring them from Mandan settlements to their own territories southwest of Lake Winnipeg.
• 1740-1748: ^[3] The War of the Austrian Succession, with the American counterpart King George's War.

Deaths

• August 20 : François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière, bishop of Quebec (b. 1711).

References