1741 Calendar
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)
- April 17, 1741 – Samuel Chase, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1811)
- 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 23, 1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
- August 31, 1741 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, French composer (d. 1816)
- 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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