Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  - 1740s -  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1738 1739 1740 - 1741 - 1742 1743 1744

1741 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science

Countries:   Canada - Great Britain - Mexico

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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, was 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 - 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.
• Population of China - 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 (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 4 - Edmond Malone, Irish scholar (died 1812)
• October 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (died 1803)
• date unknown - Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler (died 1822)

See also Category: 1741 births.

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)

See also Category: 1741 deaths.