Template:C18YearInTopicX Year 1741 (MDCCXLI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1741
January–June
- April 10 – The Austrian army attacks troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz.
- April – The New York Slave Insurrection of 1741, a plot to torch New York City, is discovered.
- June 25 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen Regnant of Hungary in Bratislava.
July–December
- 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.
Undated
- Prague is occupied by French-Bavarian armies.
- William Browning invents mineral water.
- 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.
Ongoing events
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1741 MDCCXLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2494 |
| Armenian calendar | 1190 ԹՎ ՌՃՂ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6491 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1662–1663 |
| 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) 4438 or 4231 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4439 or 4232 |
| Coptic calendar | 1457–1458 |
| Discordian calendar | 2907 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1733–1734 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5501–5502 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1797–1798 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1662–1663 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4841–4842 |
| 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) |
| Javanese calendar | 1665–1666 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4074 |
| Minguo calendar | 171 before ROC 民前171年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 273 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2283–2284 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1867 or 1486 or 714 — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1868 or 1487 or 715 |
- 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)
- date unknown – Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler (d. 1822)
- See also Category: 1741 births.
Deaths
- 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)
- 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)
- See also Category: 1741 deaths.