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 |
| 1741 in topic: |
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| Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music |
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| Colonial governors - State leaders |
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| Births - Deaths |
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| Establishments - Disestablishments |
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| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1741 MDCCXLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2494 |
| Armenian calendar | 1190 ԹՎ ՌՃՂ |
| Chinese calendar | 4377/4437-11-14 (庚申年十一月十四日) — to —
4378/4438-11-24(辛酉年十一月廿四日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1733 – 1734 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5501 – 5502 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1796 – 1797 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1663 – 1664 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4842 – 4843 |
| Iranian calendar | 1119 – 1120 |
| Islamic calendar | 1154 – 1155 |
| Japanese calendar | Genbun 6 (元文6年) — changed to —
Kanpō 1(寛保元年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2401 (皇紀2401年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11741 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2284 |
Contents |
[edit] 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
- April - Great Negro Plot of 1741, a plot to torch New York City, was discovered
- Prague occupied by French-Bavarian armies
- William Browning invents mineral water
- Elizabeth of Russia became czarina.
- Stemmatographia by Hristofor Zhefarovich, regarded as the first Bulgarian secular printed book, is printed in Vienna.
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
- 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 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (died 1803)
- Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler (died 1822)
[edit] Deaths
- March 17 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (born 1671)
- March 31 - Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (born 1668)
- May 25 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (born 1660)
- July 28 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (born 1678)
- August 4 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer (born 1676)
- August 31 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (born 1681)
- November 24 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (born1688)
- December 14 - Charles Rollin, French historian (born 1661)
- December 19 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (born 1681)
