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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1741. 1741 (MDCCXLI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on...
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    Carolina Ernestina Antonia Johanna Josefa; 12 January 1740 – 25 January 1741) was the third child and daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, and Francis I...
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    Catherine Antonovna of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1741–1807) was the daughter of Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick and Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia...
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    Conspiracy of 1741, also known as the Slave Insurrection of 1741, was a purported plot by slaves and poor whites in the British colony of New York in 1741 to revolt...
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    NGC 1741 is a distant pair of interacting galaxies (NGC 1741A and NGC 1741B) in the Eridanus constellation. It was discovered on 6 January 1878 by French...
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  • Sir John Carter (before December 20, 1741 – May 18, 1808), a Unitarian merchant, was on nine occasions Mayor of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, the chief...
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    Silesia, a French force under Maurice de Saxe took Prague on 26 November 1741, allowing the Bavarian elector, Charles Albert, to be crowned King of Bohemia...
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    The Russo-Swedish War of 1741–1743 (also known as The War of the Hats) was instigated by the Hats, a Swedish political party that aspired to regain the...
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  • The 1741 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 9th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger...
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    1680 in Linz – 26 August 1741 in Mariemont, Morlanwelz), was the governor of the Austrian Netherlands between 1725 and 1741. Maria Elisabeth was a daughter...
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  • Blaise Ollivier, with twenty-six 8-pounder guns, and was launched in February 1741 at Brest. She was regarded as the first of the 'true' frigate designs: she...
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  • 1735 1736 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745 1746 1747 1748 1749 1750 1751 … In literature 1738 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 Art Archaeology...
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  • Samuel, had 12 children, including one also named Edward Wigglesworth (1741–1826) who was a colonel in the American Revolutionary War. Wigglesworth believed...
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    The invasion of Cuba took place between 4–5 August and 9 December 1741 during the War of Jenkins' Ear. A combined army and naval force under the command...
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    … 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735 1736 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745 1746 1747 1748 1749 1750 1751 … Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music...
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    The Irish Famine of 1740–1741 (Irish: Bliain an Áir, meaning the Year of Slaughter) in the Kingdom of Ireland, is estimated to have killed between 13%...
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    1741 Giclas (prov. designation: 1960 BC) is a stony Koronis asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter...
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    Events from the year 1741 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische...
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  • A list of events from the year 1741 in France. Monarch – Louis XV The cavalry unit Régiment des Hussards de Saxe formed Antoine-François Callet, painter...
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  • John Southby (c. 1650 – 1741), of Carswell Manor, Buckland, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), was an English Member of Parliament for Abingdon in 1689–90. "SOUTHBY...
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    Gotfried Becker (1681–1750) was a Danish pharmacist. He owned Elefant Apotek in Købmagergade in Copenhagen from 1708 and served as royal court pharmacist...
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  • Lieutenant General Percy Kirke (1684 – 1 January 1741) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot. Kirke...
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    1719 Establishment at Portsmouth, from where she was relaunched on 9 March 1741. Bedford was hulked in 1767, and served in this capacity until 1787, when...
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    The Java War of 1741 to 1743 was an armed struggle by a joint Chinese and Javanese army against the Dutch East India Company and pro-Dutch Javanese that...
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  • landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1741. Long was born in Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, the eldest son of Richard Long...
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    list of compositions by the Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). The following is a list of compositions by Vivaldi that were published...
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    1740 until he was overthrown by his cousin Elizabeth Petrovna in December 1741. He was only two months old when he was proclaimed emperor and his mother...
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  • James Butler (1680 – 17 May 1741), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1705 and 1741. Butler was the son of James...
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    of all the English Baronets now Existing, Volume 4, London, 1741, p.287 [1] Collins, 1741, vol.4, p.287 Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.1235 Kershaw, Stephen...
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  • HMS Discovery was a small ship, commissioned in 1741. She was commanded by Lieutenant William Moor as she accompanied the larger HMS Furnace, commanded...
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