Rather unusually for Bach's works, the Goldberg Variations were published in his own lifetime, in 1741.

** Clavier-Übung ( without Part number ): Aria with Diverse Variations, later nicknamed Goldberg Variations ( 1741 )

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

In 1741, after five years schooling, he began work for his father, who had by now been promoted to farm manager.

In 1741 – 42 Sterne wrote political articles supporting the administration of Sir Robert Walpole for a newspaper founded by his uncle but soon withdrew from politics in disgust.

Since 1741 Stangate Creek ( on the Medway ) had been made the quarantine station at home ; but it would appear from the above clause that it was available only for vessels with clean bills.

* June 1 – Theodorick Bland, American Continental Congressman and U. S. Representative for Virginia ( b. 1741 )

False alicorn powder, made from the tusks of narwhals or horns of various animals, has been sold in Europe for medicinal purposes as late as 1741.

He had made with Frederick the curious agreement of Klein Schnellendorf ( 9 October 1741 ), by which Neisse was surrendered after a mock siege, and the Austrians undertook to leave Frederick unmolested in return for his releasing Neipperg's army for service elsewhere.

Having returned to Okhotsk with a much larger, better prepared, and much more ambitious expedition, Bering set off for an expedition towards North America in 1741.

The species is named for the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, who first described them in 1741.

In 1741, Miller purchased, including a large lithia spring, near Elkton, VA, and lived on this property for the remainder of his life.

Colonists settled New Preston in 1741, and the General Assembly of the Connecticut Colony granted a petition for the establishment of the New Preston Ecclesiastical Society in 1753.

After the battle a number of the settlers abandoned Darien for South Carolina and by 1741 another shipload of forty-three colonists had arrived.

York, also known as Yorktown in the mid 18th to early 19th century, was founded in 1741 by settlers from the Philadelphia region, and named for the English city of the same name.

In 1741, Miller purchased, including a large lithia spring, near Elkton and lived on this property for the remainder of his life.

During the reign of Prince William Henry from 1741 to 1768, the coal mines were nationalized and his policies created a proto-industrialized economy, laying the foundation for Saarland's later highly industrialized economy.

He was intended, by the King and Queen, for the office of Lord High Admiral, and, in 1740, he sailed, as a volunteer, in the fleet under the command of Sir John Norris, but he quickly became dissatisfied with the Navy, and, instead secured the post of colonel of the First Regiment of Foot Guards on 20 February 1741.

* Archibald Douglas ( d. 1741 ) ( Archibald Douglas 13th of Cavers ), Receiver-general for Scotland and MP for Dumfries Burghs

By 1741, Handel's pre-eminence in British music was evident from the honours he had accumulated, including: a pension from the court of King George II, the office of Composer of Musick for the Chapel Royal and — most unusually for a living person — a statue erected in his honour, in Vauxhall Gardens.

In July 1741 Jennens sent him a new libretto for an oratorio, and in a letter dated 10 July to his friend Edward Holdsworth, Jennens wrote: " I hope will lay out his whole Genius & Skill upon it, that the Composition may excell all his former Compositions, as the Subject excells every other subject.

Whether Handel originally intended to perform Messiah in Dublin is uncertain ; he did not inform Jennens of any such plan, for the latter wrote to Holdsworth on 2 December 1741: "... it was some mortification to me to hear that instead of performing Messiah here he has gone into Ireland with it.

In September 1741, a sequel of Pamela called Pamela's Conduct in High Life was published by Ward and Chandler.

First published in 1741, the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form.

In 1741 he published an Essay on Redemption, containing somewhat advanced views.

Zedler also published new works such as the trade lexicon Allgemeine Schatz-Kammer Der Kaufmannschafft ( 1741 – 1743, 4 volumes and 1 supplement volume ), stock exchange laws Corpus Juris Cambialis ( Johann Gottlieb Siegels, 1742, 2 volumes ) and the Historical-Political-Geographical Atlas of the whole world ( 1744 – 1749, 13 volumes ), published under the name of the Leipzig bookseller, Johann Samuel Heinsius the Elder.

Under Lord Eldon, Chancery procedure was further reformed with a pair of orders published in 1741 and 1747, which mandated that a claimant who brought his case to court and had it dismissed immediately should pay full costs to the other side, rather than the 40 shillings previously paid, and that parties filing bills of review should pay £ 50 for the privilege.

Duker was also an authority on ancient law, and published Opuscula varia de latinitate veterum jurisconsultorum ( 1711 ), and a revision of the Leges Atticae of S. Petit ( 1741 ).

Euler's work was presented to the St. Petersburg Academy on August 26, 1735, and published as Solutio problematis ad geometriam situs pertinentis ( The solution of a problem relating to the geometry of position ) in the journal Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae in 1741.

He was the son ( or nephew ) of the engraver George Bickham the Elder ( 1684 – 1758 ), who published the Universal Penman ( 1733 – 1741 ).

In 1741 he published the first volume of Samuel Richardson's novel, Pamela.

An enthusiastic royalist, he published, with Fréron's brother-in-law, the abbé Thomas Royou ( 1741 – 1792 ), a journal, L ' Ami du roi ( 1790 – 1792 ), which possibly did more harm than good to the king's cause by its ill-advised partisanship.

This murder was the subject of his first pamphlet, which he published around 1741.

Nicholas Andry coined the word " orthopaedics " in French as orthopedie, derived from the Greek words orthos (" correct ", " straight ") and paideion (" child "), when he published Orthopedie ( translated as Orthopaedia: or the Art of Correcting and Preventing Deformities in Children ) in 1741.

I Choedae () made a Mongolian edition called the Mong-eo Nogeoldae ( Měngyǔ Lǎoqǐdà 蒙語老乞大 ) that was published in 1741.

In 1741 he published The Judgment of Hercules.

In 1741, Pope wrote a fourth book of the Dunciad and had it published the next year as a stand-alone text.

His Tractatus de materia medico, published posthumously in 1741, was long celebrated.

Wargentin made studies on the moons of Jupiter and published his first paper on the topic in 1741 in the Acta of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala.

Rumphius is best known for his authorship of Het Amboinsche kruidboek or Herbarium Amboinense, a catalogue of the plants of the island of Amboina ( in modern-day Indonesia ), published posthumously in 1741.

In 1741 he published a Gaelic / English Vocabulary, a volume of 200 pages, which was the first Scottish Gaelic vocabulary ever to be published.

Norden published some test-drawings from his voyage in 1741, under the long name " Drawings of Some Ruins and Colossal Statues at Thebes in Egypt, with an account of the same in a Letter to the Royal Society ".

Between 1741 and 1753 Formey published six books in The Hague on the philosophy of Christian Wolff, explained for women.