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1741

1741 in topic:
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Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

From Categories:
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1741 - 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
• Prague occupied by French-Bavarian armies
• William Browning invents mineral water
• Elizabeth of Russia became czarina.

1741 - Ongoing events

• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

1741 - Births

• January 14 - Benedict Arnold, American Revolutionary War general and traitor (d. 1801)
• 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 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
• Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler (d. 1822)

1741 - Deaths

• 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 (b. 1678)
• August 4 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
• August 31 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
• 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)

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