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1741

Years: 1738 1739 1740 - 1741 - 1742 1743 1744

Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1741 in literature 1741 in music 1741 in science List of state leaders in 1741 List of religious leaders in 1741

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• April 10 – Austrian army attack troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz
• December 19 – Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia
• December 25 – Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale Celsius
• William Browning invents mineral water
• Elizabeth of Russia became czarina.

Ongoing events

• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

Births

• January 14 - Benedict Arnold, General in United States' Revolutionary War, turncoat (d. 1801)
• March 13 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
• March 25 - Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor
• September 22 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
• October 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
• William Withering, British doctor
• Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler under the Ottoman Empire
• Emperor Momozono of Japan

Deaths

• July 28 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
• November 28 - Antonio Domenico Viraldini, Italian composer (b. 1705)

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