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, is 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 - 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.

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.

Ongoing events

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

Births

• 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.

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.