1741

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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).

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Events of 1741

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

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, was discovered.

★ June 25 - Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen Regnant of Hungary in Bratislava.

July - December

★ August 10 - Raja of Travancore defeats Dutch East India Company naval expedition at Battle of Colachel.

★ 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 occupied by French-Bavarian armies.

★ William Browning invents mineral water.

★ ''Stemmatographia'' by Hristofor Zhefarovich, regarded as the first Bulgarian secular printed book, is printed in Vienna.

Ongoing events

★ War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

★ War of Jenkins' Ear

Births

★ January 14 - Benedict Arnold, American Revolutionary War general and traitor (died 1801)

★ January 27 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (died 1821)

★ March 13 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1790)

★ March 17 - William Withering, British physician (died 1799)

★ March 20 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (died 1828)

★ April 14 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (died 1762)

★ May 23 - Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (died 1801)

★ September 22 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (died 1811)

★ October 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (died 1803)

★ ''date unknown'' - Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler (died 1822)
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Deaths

★ February 21 - Jethro Tull, British agriculturist (born 1674)

★ March 17 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (born 1671)

★ March 31 - Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (born 1668)

★ May 25 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (born 1660)

★ July 28 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (born 1678)

★ August 4 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer (born 1676)

★ August 31 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (born 1681)

★ November 24 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (born1688)

★ December 14 - Charles Rollin, French historian (born 1661)

★ December 19 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (born 1681)
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