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What Happened In Year 1741?

• April 10, 1741 – War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
• June 25, 1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
• July 15, 1741 – Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
• July 31, 1741 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
• September 14, 1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah

Who Were Born In The Year 1741?

• January 14, 1741 – Benedict Arnold, American/British general (d. 1801)
• January 27, 1741 – Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
• March 13, 1741 – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
• March 20, 1741 – Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
• April 6, 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (d. 1794)
• April 14, 1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
• April 15, 1741 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)
• May 9, 1741 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
• May 23, 1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1801)
• June 11, 1741 – Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)
• June 21, 1741 – Benedetto, Duke of Chablais, Italian general in the French Revolution (d.1808)
• August 25, 1741 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
• August 31, 1741 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, French composer (d. 1816)
• September 22, 1741 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
• October 18, 1741 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
• November 2, 1741 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)
• November 15, 1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (d. 1801)
• December 30, 1741 – Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1759)
• December 31, 1741 – Isabella Maria of Parma, wife of future Holy Roman emperor (d. 1763)

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