1741
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| Years: 1738 1739 1740 - 1741 - 1742 1743 1744 |
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| Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s |
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| Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1741 in topic: Lists of leaders: |
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Events
- April 10 - Austrian army attack troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz
- August 10 - Raja of Travancore defeats Dutch East India Company naval expedition at Battle of Colachel
- December 19 - Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia
- December 25 - Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale Celsius
- Prague occupied by French-Bavarian armies
- William Browning invents mineral water
- Elizabeth of Russia became czarina.
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Ongoing events
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Births
- January 14 - Benedict Arnold, American Revolutionary War general and traitor (d. 1801)
- 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 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
- Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler (d. 1822)
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Deaths
- 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 (b. 1678)
- August 4 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
- 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)
