March 2 » Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths; it lasted three days
April 20 » Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
April 20 » Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
October 30 » Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios.
December 27 » The Flushing Remonstrance articulates for the first time in North American history that freedom of religion is a fundamental right.
Day of death October 14, 1741
The temperature on October 14, 1741 was about 12.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: regen. Special wheather fenomena: donder bliksem. Source: KNMI
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.
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.
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