1741

This article is about the year 1741. For the number, see 1741 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  – 1740s –  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1738 1739 1740 – 1741 – 1742 1743 1744

1741 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Russia – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1741 in other calendars

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

1741 (MDCCXLI) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1741st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 741st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1740s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1741 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• 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

• 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

• 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

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

• 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

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Antonio Vivaldi

• 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)