About the day » Wednesday January 11, 1741Calender converter

• Anton BUROCK, Ebersdorf bei Graupen/ Erzgebirge († 1813)
• Claes Roelse, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Claas Jans VERDONK, Westzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arij van der HEIJDEN, Dordrecht
• Anna Maria Anne De Schepper, Stekene (B) († 1787)
• Cornelius Allaert, Westkapelle,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Elizabeth Buford, Bloomfield Parish, Culpeper Co, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1803)
• Derkje Friele, Deventer († 1823)
• Engeltje Simonse Veeder, Albany, Albany County, New York, Colonial America († 1827)
• Antonia Verscheuren (Verschueren), Vlijmen

• Livina Loof (55)
• Isaac Woods (85), Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Celia (Cecilia) Boon (57), Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Hendericus Marinus Henricus Marijnisse van Oosterbosch (33), Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Jaapje Varkevisser (36), Katwijk
• Hendricus Marinus Oosterbosch van (33), Rucphen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jasperina Isaacdr van der LISSE (67), Kortgene, Noord-Beveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Livinus Van Mossevelde, Overmere
• Henricus Marinus Oosterbosch Oosterbos (33), Rucphen (Rucphen) (Noord-Brabant)
• Godefridus Nijsten (81), Leut (B)

• 1671 » François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general and diplomat († 1745)
• 1755 » Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian-American general, economist and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1804)
• 1757 » Samuel Bentham, English engineer and architect († 1831)
• 1760 » Oliver Wolcott Jr., American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 24th Governor of Connecticut († 1833)
• 1777 » Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader († 1837)
• 1786 » Joseph Jackson Lister, English physicist († 1869)
• 1788 » William Thomas Brande, English chemist and academic († 1866)
• 1800 » Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer († 1895)
• 1807 » Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University († 1874)
• 1814 » James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist († 1899)

• 1696 » Charles Albanel, French priest, missionary, and explorer (b. 1616)
• 1703 » Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (b. 1632)
• 1713 » Pierre Jurieu, French priest and theologian (b. 1637)
• 1735 » Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje (b. 1670)
• 1753 » Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (b. 1660)
• 1757 » Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1688)
• 1762 » Louis-François Roubiliac, French-English sculptor (b. 1695)
• 1763 » Caspar Abel, German poet, historian, and theologian (b. 1676)
• 1771 » Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher and author (b. 1704)
• 1788 » François Joseph Paul de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
• March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
• June 25 » Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
• July 31 » Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
• 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.
• September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

The temperature on January 11, 1741 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.