1741

Events of 1741

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.

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.

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)