Today in History for Year 1741

Months in Year 1741: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 25 of 25

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

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 39 of 39

Jan 14th - Benedict Arnold, Norwich Connecticut, US general turned traitor (Revolutionary War)
Jan 27th - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
Feb 8th - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer
Feb 9th - Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer
Feb 10th - Franz Adam Veichtner, composer
Mar 13th - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1764-90) (d. 1790)
Mar 20th - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
Mar 28th - Johann Andre, composer
Apr 8th - Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (O Uraguai)
Apr 14th - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
Apr 15th - Charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington)
Apr 17th - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, composer
Apr 17th - Samuel Chase, judge (signed Decl of Ind)
May 10th - Johann Michael Schmidt, composer
May 17th - John Penn, US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [OS=May 6]
May 23rd - Andrea Lucchesi, composer
May 29th - Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer
Jun 11th - Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)
Jun 19th - Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/art collector
US Defector General Benedict Arnold (Jan 14th) Jun 22nd - Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer
Jul 27th - Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer
Aug 15th - Thomas Norris, composer
Aug 23rd - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
Aug 25th - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
Aug 31st - Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer
Aug 31st - Husein Gradaščević, Bosniak general (d. 1834)
Sep 11th - Johann J Angel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark)
Sep 22nd - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist (Siberia/Krim)
Sep 25th - Vaclav Pichl, composer
Oct 18th - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
Oct 30th - Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss painter
Nov 2nd - Joan Derk van Capellen, leader of Neth Democratic Patriots
Nov 15th - Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher
Nov 25th - Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer
Nov 27th - Jean-Pierre Duport, composer
Dec 8th - Maximilian JLP Gardel, French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine)
Dec 10th - Agatha "Aagje" Deken, Dutch writer (For the Elderly & Children)
Dec 30th - Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer
Dec 31st - Isabella Maria of Parma, wife of future Holy Roman emperor (d. 1763)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 14 of 14

Feb 13th - Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer/music theorist, dies at about 80
Mar 17th - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
Mar 31st - Pieter Burmann/Burman the Elder, Dutch classical scholar dies at 72
Apr 28th - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (b. 1668)
May 25th - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
Jun 22nd - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer, dies at 38
Jul 28th - Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63
Jul 30th - Wierich PL count von Daun, gov-gen of Austria & Netherlands, dies
Aug 4th - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
Aug 31st - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
Nov 20th - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/clergyman, dies
Nov 24th - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
Dec 14th - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
Dec 19th - Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies