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Contents

1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

April 10 - Austrian army attack troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz
August 10 - Raja of Travancore defeats Dutch East India Company naval expedition at Battle of Colachel
December 19 - Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia
December 25 - Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale Celsius

April - Great Negro Plot of 1741, a plot to torch New York City, was discovered
Prague occupied by French-Bavarian armies
William Browning invents mineral water
Elizabeth of Russia became czarina.
Stemmatographia by Hristofor Zhefarovich, regarded as the first Bulgarian secular printed book, is printed in Vienna.

Ongoing events

War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

Births

January 14 - Benedict Arnold, American Revolutionary War general and traitor (d. 1801)
January 27 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
March 13 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
March 17 - William Withering, British physician (d. 1799)
March 20 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
April 14 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
May 23 - Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1801)
September 22 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
October 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler (d. 1822)

Deaths

March 17 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
March 31 - Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
May 25 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
July 28 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
August 4 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
August 31 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
November 24 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b.1688)
December 14 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
December 19 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)

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