Millennium:	2nd millennium
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 –

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1741 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

[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, Centigrade the predecessor of the Celsius 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

• War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748)
• War of Jenkins' Ear

[edit] Births

1741 in other calendars

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
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• 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.