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1741 Calendar

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•  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

•  January 27, 1741 – Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
•  March 13, 1741 – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
•  April 17, 1741 – Samuel Chase, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1811)
•  May 9, 1741 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
•  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)
•  September 22, 1741 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
•  November 2, 1741 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)
•  November 15, 1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (d. 1801)