1741
*
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.
*
War of the Austrian Succession (
1740-
1748)
*
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 18 -
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d.
1803)
*
Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler (d.
1822)
*
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)
