Notable Historical Events - 1741
1741 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Feb 13 |
Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine) |
Feb 16 |
Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine (2nd US Mag) begins publishing |
Mar 4 |
British fleet under Rear Admiral of the Blue Sir Chaloner Ogle reaches Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) |
Mar 9 |
English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena |
Apr 10 |
War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz. |
Apr 13 |
Dutch people protest bad quality of bread |
Apr 13 |
Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich |
May 8 |
France & Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg |
May 28 |
Spain & Bavaria sign treaty |
Jun 4 |
Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg |
Jun 15 |
Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America |
Jun 30 |
Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms |
Jul 15 |
Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska. |
Jul 28 |
Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska |
Jul 31 |
Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia. |
Aug 15 |
French troops attack the Rhine |
Aug 20 |
Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition |
Sep 11 |
Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament |
Sep 14 |
George Frideric Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days |
Nov 26 |
French & Beiers army occupies Prague |
Dec 5 |
-6] Russian princess Elisabeth Petrovna grabs powers |
Dec 7 |
Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia |
Dec 25 |
Astronomer Anders Celsius introduces Centigrade temperature scale |
Dec 27 |
Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia |
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