Events 1741

1 events

1.1 january–june
1.2 july–december
1.3 date unknown

events
january–june

april – new york slave insurrection, plot set fire new york city, discovered.
april 10 – battle of mollwitz: austrian army defeated prussian troops of frederick great.
may – vitus bering sets out petropavlovsk-kamchatsky, map coasts of siberia , alaska.
may – battle of cartagena de indias: spanish wins impressive victory on great britain.
june 25 – maria theresa of austria crowned queen regnant of hungary in bratislava.

july–december

july 8 – jonathan edwards repeats sinners in hands of angry god sermon @ enfield, connecticut.
july 15 – alexei chirikov sights land in southeast alaska, , sends men aboard ship ashore in longboat, making them first europeans visit alaska.
august 4–5 – war of jenkins ear – invasion of cuba: british admiral edward vernon captures guantánamo bay in cuba, renames cumberland bay, forces forced abandon on december 9.
august 10 – battle of colachel: raja marthanda varma of travancore defeats dutch east india company, ending dutch colonial rule in india.
november 25–26 – franco-bavarian troops commanded maurice of saxony storm prague.
december 6 – elizabeth of russia becomes czarina, after palace coup.
december 19 – vitus bering dies during expedition, east of siberia.
december 25 – anders celsius develops own thermometer scale, centigrade, predecessor of celsius scale.

date unknown

stemmatographia hristofor zhefarovich, regarded first serbian , bulgarian secular printed book, printed in vienna.
the population of china reaches c. 143 million.
the royal order of scotland founded.