January 23 » The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
June 10 » Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
Day of marriage December 24, 1741
The temperature on December 24, 1741 was about 2.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly east. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
April 10 » War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
June 25 » Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
August 10 » King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
Day of death September 3, 1760
The temperature on September 3, 1760 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
June 27 » Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
October 25 » King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of his grandfather George II
November 15 » The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
November 18 » The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in Valletta, receives the first prisoners.
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