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Events from the year 1740 in Russia

Incumbents

Monarch – Anna (until 28 October [O.S. 17]),^[1]^[2] Ivan VI (from 28 October [O.S. 17])^[3]^[4]
Regent – Ernst Johann von Biron (28 October [O.S. 17] – 20 November [O.S. 9]), Sovereign and Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna (since 20 November)

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.

29 February - Thomas MacKenzie, admiral, founder of Sevastopol.
7 May - Nikolai Arkharov, Governor General of Moscow (1781–1784)
28 May - Fedot Shubin, architect
23 August [O.S. 12 August] 1740 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia in 1740–41. (d. 1764)^[3]^[4]
21 September [O.S. 10 September] 1740 - Ivan Lepyokhin, Russian naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer. (d. 1802)^[5]

8 July - Artemy Volynsky, Pyotr Yeropkin and Andrey Khrushchyov, statesmen (executed)
28 October - Anna, empress of Russia (born 1693)^[1]^[2]

^ ^a ^b "Anna empress of Russia". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2019-08-21.
^ ^a ^b "Biography of Empress Anna of Russia". Saint-Petersburg.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-21.
^ ^a ^b "Ivan VI emperor of Russia". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2019-08-22.
^ ^a ^b "Biography of Emperor Ivan VI and Anna Leopoldovna". Saint-Petersburg.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-22.
^ "РОДИЛСЯ ПУТЕШЕСТВЕННИК, ЕСТЕСТВОИСПЫТАТЕЛЬ ИВАН ИВАНОВИЧ ЛЕПЁХИН". Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. 2020-03-28. Archived from the original on 2019-07-04. Retrieved 2020-03-28.

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