List of state leaders in 1740
1739 state leaders - Events of 1740 - 1741 state leaders - State leaders by year
Africa
- Ashanti Confederacy - Opoku Ware I, Asantehene (1720-1750)
- Bunyoro - Duhaga, Omukama of Bunyoro (1731-c.1782)
- Dahomey - Tegbesu, King of Dahomey (1732-1774)
- Ethiopia - Iyasu II, Emperor of Ethiopia, (1730-1755)
- Nkore - Macwa, Omugabe of Nkole, (c.1727-c.1755)
- Zulu - Mageba kaPhunga, King of the Zulu (1727-1745)
Asia
- China (Qing Dynasty) - Qianlong, Emperor of China (1735-1796)
- Japan
- Monarch - Sakuramachi, Emperor of Japan (1735-1747)
- Shogun (Tokugawa) - Tokugawa Yoshimune, Shogun of Japan (1716-1745)
Europe
- Denmark -
- Monarch - Christian VI, King of Denmark (1730-1746)
- Prime Minister - Johan Ludvig, Minister of State of Denmark (1735-1751)
- France - Louis XV, King of France (1715-1774)
- Great Britain -
- Monarch - George II, King of Great Britain (1727-1760)
- Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1721-1742)
- Holy Roman Empire - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711-1740)
- Hesse-Kassel - Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, also King of Sweden
- Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (1733-1763) also King of Poland(1730-1751)
- Portugal - John V, King of Portugal (1706-1750)
- Prussia -
- Russia -
- Spain - Philip V, King of Spain (1700-1724, 1724-1746)
- Sweden - Age of Liberty
- Monarch - Frederick I, King of Sweden, also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720-1751)
Middle East and North Africa
- Morocco -
- Al-Mostadi, Sultan of Morocco (1738-1740)
- Abdallah III, Sultan of Morocco (1740-1745)
- Ottoman Empire
- Monarch - Mahmud I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1730-1754)
- Grand Vizier -
- Haci Ivazzade Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier (1739-1740)
- Nisanci Haci Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier (1740-1742)
- Tunis - Ali I, Bey of Tunis (1735-1756)