1741
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This article is about the year 1741. For the number, see 1741 (number).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1741 MDCCXLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2494 |
| Armenian calendar | 1190 ԹՎ ՌՃՂ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6491 |
| Bengali calendar | 1148 |
| Berber calendar | 2691 |
| British Regnal year | 14 Geo. 2 – 15 Geo. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2285 |
| Burmese calendar | 1103 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7249–7250 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4437 or 4377 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4438 or 4378 |
| Coptic calendar | 1457–1458 |
| Discordian calendar | 2907 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1733–1734 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5501–5502 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1797–1798 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1663–1664 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4842–4843 |
| Holocene calendar | 11741 |
| Igbo calendar | 741–742 |
| Iranian calendar | 1119–1120 |
| Islamic calendar | 1153–1154 |
| Japanese calendar | Genbun 6 / Kanpō 1 (寛保元年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4074 |
| Minguo calendar | 171 before ROC 民前171年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2283–2284 |
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1741. |
Year 1741 (MDCCXLI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
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Events[edit]
January–June[edit]
- April – The New York Slave Insurrection, a plot to set fire to New York City, is discovered.
- April 10 – An Austrian army is defeated by Prussian troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz.
- May – Vitus Bering sets out from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to map the coasts of Siberia and Alaska.
- May – Spanish victory in Battle of Cartagena de Indias over Great Britain.
- June 25 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen Regnant of Hungary in Bratislava.
July–December[edit]
- July 8 – John Edwards gives "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God" sermon
- 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, Centigrade the predecessor of the Celsius scale.
Date unknown[edit]
- Prague is occupied by French-Bavarian armies.
- 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.
- Royal Order of Scotland is founded.
Births[edit]
- 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)
- October 24 - Johann August von Starck, German pastor (d. 1816)
- November 15 Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss physiognomist (d. 1801)
Deaths[edit]
- January 15 – Ramon Despuig, 67th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1670)
- February 13 – Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer (b. 1660)
- 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)
- September 7 – Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (b. 1689)
- 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)