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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 ).

EVENTS OF 1741

January - June

April 10 - The Austria n army attacks troops of Frederick The Great at Mollwitz .

April - The New York Slave Insurrection Of 1741 , a plot to torch New York City , was discovered.

June 25 - Maria Theresa Of Austria is crowned Queen Regnant Of Hungary in Bratislava .

July - December

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.

Undated

Prague occupied by French-Bavarian armies.

William Browning invents Mineral Water .

''Stemmatographia'' by Hristofor Zhefarovich , regarded as the first Bulgaria n Secular printed book, is printed in Vienna .

ONGOING EVENTS

War Of The Austrian Succession ( 1740 - 1748 )

War Of Jenkins' Ear

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 )

''date unknown'' - Ali Pasha , Albanian ruler (died 1822 )

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DEATHS

February 21 - Jethro Tull , British agriculturist (born 1674 )

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 (born 1688 )

December 14 - Charles Rollin , French historian (born 1661 )

December 19 - Vitus Bering , Danish-born explorer (born 1681 )

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