Asia
- Brunei - Muhammad Alauddin, Sultan of Brunei (1730–1745)
- China (Qing Dynasty) – Qianlong, Emperor of China (1735–1796)
- Hyderabad – Asaf Jah I, Nizam of Hyderabad (1720–1748)
- Japan
- Monarch – Sakuramachi, Emperor of Japan (1735–1747)
- Shogun (Tokugawa) – Tokugawa Yoshimune, Shogun of Japan (1716–1745)
- Ryūkyū Kingdom – Shō Kei, King of Ryūkyū (1713–1751)
- Kokang - Yang Shien Tsai, Chief of Shin Da Hu (1739–1758)
- Korea (Joseon Dynasty) – Yeongjo, King of Joseon (1724–1776)
- Nagpur Kingdom - Raghoji I Bhonsle, King of Nagpur (1739-1755)
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“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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In shaping-time the circle stung awake,
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