On Christmas Eve in 1741, David Nitschmann and Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, leading a small group of Moravians, founded the mission community of Bethlehem along the banks of the Monocacy Creek by the Lehigh River in the colony of Pennsylvania.

‘ A Supplement ,’ 1741, ( reply to David Jennings )

" Cibber was particularly admired by Handel, who wrote numerous parts especially for her including the contralto arias in his 1741 oratorio Messiah, the role of Micah in Samson, the role of Lichas in Hercules and the role of David in Saul among others.

* David Davies ( clergyman ) ( 1741 – 1819 ), Welsh clergyman in the Church of England

David Davies ( 1741 – 1819 ) was a Welsh clergyman in the Church of England.

* David Carnegie, 5th Earl of Northesk ( 1701 – 1741 )

* David Hawley ( 1741 – 1807 ), Stratfield, Connecticut, captain and privateer during the American Revolution

** David Owen, harpist ( died 1741 )

During the Revolutionary War, Claudius, along with several members of his family, including three of his four sons ( William, Richard, and James ), allegedly terrorized the New York countryside in an area formerly known as Smith's Clove ( presently Monroe ), Orange County, New York, where David Smith and his family had moved about 1741 from Brookhaven.

* David Carnegie, 5th Earl of Northesk ( 11 June 1701 – 24 June 1741 )

David Carnegie, 5th Earl of Northesk ( 11 June 1701 – 24 June 1741 ) was the son of David Carnegie, 4th Earl of Northesk and Lady Margaret Wemyss.

* 1741 David Scott

In 1929, Feuermann purchased a cello made by David Tecchler in Rome in 1741.

* October 19 – Count Wirich Philipp von Daun, Austrian military leader ( d. 1741 )

In 1741, the allied Spaniards and Neapolitans had advanced towards Modena, the Duke of which state had allied himself with them, but the vigilant Austrian commander, Count Otto Ferdinand von Traun had out-marched them, captured Modena and forced the Duke to make a separate peace.

He wrote two other romances which were favorably received: The Baroness de Luz ( 1741 ) and Confessions of Count de *** ( 1747 ).

Count Francesco Algarotti may have written to Burlington from Berlin that he was recommending to Frederick the Great the adoption in Prussia of the architectural style Burlington had introduced in England but Knobelsdorff's opera house on the Unter den Linden, based on Campbell's Wanstead House, had been constructed from 1741.

* Count Andrei Ivanovich Osterman ( Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann ) ( 1740 ; dismissed 1741 )

He was placed under the care of his paternal uncle, Louis, Count of Clermont, his father's youngest brother after his father died in 1740 and his mother died in 1741 when Louis Joseph was four.

The fourth Orlov brother was Count Fyodor Grigoryevich ( 1741 – 1796 ), Russian general, who first distinguished himself in the Seven Years ' War.

* Count Wirich Philipp von Daun ( 1669 – 1741 ), Austrian field marshal

* John Philip ( 1666 – 1741 ), Baron from 1686, Count from 1705

Count Alexander Romanovich Vorontsov () ( 4 February 1741 – 2 December 1805 ) was the Russian imperial chancellor during the early years of Alexander I's reign.

Portrait of Count Tessin by the French painter Louis Tocqué, 1741.

In 1741, Zinzendorf visited Pennsylvania, thus becoming one of the few 18th century European nobles to have actually set foot in the Americas.

In 1741, during the attack that led to Walpole's downfall, Samuel Sandys declared that " According to our Constitution we can have no sole and prime minister.

Sweden's dissatisfaction with the result led to fruitless attempts at recovering the lost territories in the course of the following century, such as the Russo-Swedish War ( 1741 – 1743 ), and the Russo-Swedish War ( 1788 – 1790 ).

There, the party discovered that Chirikov had led a rescue mission during 1741 that came within miles of the stranded group.

Although the sea cow had formerly been abundant throughout the North Pacific, by 1741, when it was first described by Georg Wilhelm Steller, chief naturalist on an expedition led by explorer Vitus Bering, its range had been limited to a single, isolated population surrounding the uninhabited Commander Islands.

In March 1741, the city endured a large-scale attack by British and American colonial troops led by Admiral Edward Vernon ( 1684 – 1757 ), who arrived at Cartagena with a massive fleet of 186 ships and 23, 600 men, including 12, 000 infantry, against six Spanish ships and fewer than 6, 000 men, in an action known as the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, part of the War of Jenkin's Ear.

The siege was broken off due to the start of the tropical rainy season, after weeks of intense fighting in which the British landing party was successfully repelled by the Spanish and native forces led by commander General Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta ( 1689 – 1741, death in aftermath of the Cartagena battle ), a Basque from the Gipuzkoa lands of Spain.

This led to the college trustees passing a decree in 1741 that ' if any student of this College shall directly or indirectly say, that the Rector, either of the Trustees or tutors are hypocrites, carnal or unconverted men, he shall for the first offense make a public confession in the hall, and for the second offense be expelled '.

The outbreak of war with Spain and the imminent threat of war with France during the early stages of the War of the Austrian Succession led to Mathews ' return to active service after seven years of effective retirement, with a promotion directly to vice-admiral of the red on 13 March 1741.

Several of them — Israel in Egypt ( written 1738 ), Messiah ( 1741 ) and Samson ( 1743 ), for instance — bore some semblance to Greek tragedy, and this led Handel to venture into the world of classical drama.

* The lives of early Alaskans remained basically unchanged for thousands of years, until Russian sailors, led by Danish explorer Vitus Bering, sighted Alaska's mainland in 1741.

One of the most spectacular instances of such a failure occurred in 1741 at the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, when a large British empire amphibious assault force with a compromised command was defeated by a much smaller but well organised and led Spanish empire defence.

Until the second version of The Dunciad in 1741, Theobald remained the chief of the " Dunces " who led the way toward night ( see the translatio stultitia ) by debasing public taste and bringing " Smithfield muses to the ears of kings.

In 1741, the house and grounds were purchased by a syndicate led by the proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Sir Thomas Robinson MP, and the Gardens opened to the public the following year.

He led the siege of Prague in the War of the Austrian Succession with his grenadiers in 1741 and defended the city against the Austrian troops.

The outbreak of war with Spain and the imminent threat of war with France during the early stages of the War of the Austrian Succession led to Mathews ' return to active service, with a promotion directly to vice-admiral of the red on 13 March 1741.

Some notable Masters did preside over the college during this time, including James Allen ( the first Master to drop the ' y ' from his surname ), who in 1741 made over to the college six houses in Kensington, the rents of which were to be used in the establishment of two small schools in Dulwich, one for boys from the village, the other for girls to read and sew, out of which James Allen's Girls ' School ( JAGS ) arose.

In the absence of any effective Spanish force on the coast, he was able to harass the enemy and to sack the small port city of Paita in Peru ( 13 – 15 November 1741 ).

The gardens were designed by Henry Hoare II and laid out between 1741 and 1780 in a classical 18th-century design set around a large lake, achieved by damming a small stream.

He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and studied divinity first at a small theological seminary at Perth, and afterwards for a brief period under Philip Doddridge at Northampton, where he was ordained in January 1741.