1741

Year 1741 (MDCCXLI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1741

January - June

* April 10 - The Austrian army attacks troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz.
* April - The New York Slave Insurrection of 1741, a plot to torch New York City, is discovered.
* June 25 - Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen Regnant of Hungary in Bratislava.

July - December

* July 15 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends some men aboard in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
* August 10 - Battle of Colachel: The Raja of Travancore defeats a Dutch East India Company naval expedition.
* December 6 - Elizabeth of Russia becomes czarina after a palace coup.
* December 19 - Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia.
* December 25 - Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale, "Celsius", a centigrade scale.

Undated

* Prague is occupied by French-Bavarian armies.
* William Browning invents mineral water.
* "Stemmatographia" by Hristofor Zhefarovich, regarded as the first Serbian and Bulgarian secular printed book, is printed in Vienna.
* The population of China reaches c. 143 million.

Ongoing events

* War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
* War of Jenkins' Ear

Births

* January 14 - Benedict Arnold, American Revolutionary War general and traitor (d. 1801)
* January 27 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
* March 13 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
* March 17 - William Withering, British physician (d. 1799)
* March 20 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
* April 14 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
* May 23 - Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1801)
* September 22 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
* October 4 - Edmond Malone, Irish scholar (d. 1812)
* October 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
*"date unknown" - Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler (d. 1822)

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Deaths

* February 21 - Jethro Tull, British agriculturist (b. 1674)
* March 17 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
* March 31 - Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
* May 25 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
* July 28 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (born 1678)
* August 4 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer (b. 1676)
* August 31 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
* November 24 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b.1688)
* December 14 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
* December 19 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)

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