1741
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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s |
| Years: | 1738 1739 1740 - 1741 - 1742 1743 1744 |
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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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[edit] Events of 1741
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1741 MDCCXLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2494 |
| Armenian calendar | 1190 ԹՎ ՌՃՂ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -103 – -102 |
| Berber calendar | 2691 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2285 |
| Burmese calendar | 1103 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7249 – 7250 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年十一月十四日 (4377/4437-11-14) — to —
辛酉年十一月廿四日(4378/4438-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 1457 – 1458 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1733 – 1734 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5501 – 5502 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1796 – 1797 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1663 – 1664 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4842 – 4843 |
| Holocene calendar | 11741 |
| Iranian calendar | 1119 – 1120 |
| Islamic calendar | 1153 – 1154 |
| Japanese calendar | Genbun 6Kanpō 1 (寛保元年) |
| Korean calendar | 4074 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2284 |
- 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)
- See also Category: 1741 births.
[edit] 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)
- See also Category: 1741 deaths.
