He was successful in the request, and Celsius founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741.

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was supported by the Croatians in the War of Austrian Succession of 1741 – 1748 and subsequently made significant contributions to Croatian matters.

The most notable example of these was Henry Fielding's Shamela ( 1741 ), written as a parody of Pamela.

This was the outcome of the Russo-Swedish War from 1741 to 1743 where the Russian Empress made the imposition of her relative Adolf Frederick as the heir to the Swedish Throne, to succeed Frederick I who lacked legitimate issue, as a peace condition.

However, their rule was interrupted by Marathas who carried six expeditions in Bengal from 1741 to 1748 as a result of which Bengal became a vassal state of Marathas.

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 three years of building and two of on-land testing, H2 was ready, but by then Britain was at war with Spain in the War of Austrian Succession and the mechanism was deemed too important to risk falling into Spanish hands.

In 1741 he was elected as Definitor General of the order ( Catholic Encyclopedia ).

Peine forte et dure was abolished in the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1772, although the last known actual use of the practice was in 1741.

The process of Innocent's beatification was introduced in 1741 by Benedict XIV and continued by Clement XI and Clement XII ; but French influence and the accusation of Jansenism caused it to be suspended in 1744.

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.

Richard Marsh lived until 1727 when his Brewery was bequeathed to his widow, and then to his daughter, who sold the property on to Samuel Shepherd around 1741.

The innovative mathematician and physicist Samuel Klingenstierna ( 1698 – 1765 ) was made a professor in 1728, the physicist and astronomer Anders Celsius in 1729, and Carl Linnaeus was made professor of Medicine with Botany in 1741.

Vocal cords, a term commonly used to refer to the vocal folds, was coined by the French anatomist Antoine Ferrein in 1741.

William Withering ( 17 March 1741 – 6 October 1799 ) was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.

Year 1741 ( MDCCXLI ) was a common year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

The 1741 Battle of Colachel by Nairs of Travancore under Raja Marthanda Varma was therefore a rearguard action.

Johann Wilhelm Archenholz was born in Langfuhr ( Wrzeszcz ) near Danzig ( Gdańsk ) on September 3, 1741.

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.

This was one of the first towns granted by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth after the separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts in 1741.

A grant of land on which Monaca now stands was granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by patent, bearing the date September 5, 1787, to Colonel Ephraim Blaine ( 1741 – 1804 ), who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, from 1778 to 1782 as commissary-general of the Northern Department, and paternal great-grandfather of James G. Blaine.

The town's fortunes received a further boost in 1741 when the Matsumae clan, which had been granted nearby areas on the Oshima Peninsula as a march fief, moved its Kameda magistracy to Masamichi's house in Hakodate.

After becoming a part of New Hampshire province in 1741, the town was granted to Colonel Josiah Willard, commander of Fort Dummer.

The Massachusetts General Court in 1735 granted Captain Raymond and his company a township called Beverly-Canada ( now Weare ) as payment for their services, but that claim was ruled invalid after New Hampshire separated from Massachusetts in 1741.

Settled in 1741, the town was granted in 1748 by Governor Benning Wentworth as " Hillsborough ," named for Sir Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough.

In 1728, the first concessions of land were granted to settlers, and by 1741, the Parish of Saint-Louis-de-France was formed, soon after renamed to Saint-Louis-de-l ' Isle-aux-Coudres.

Salisbury was incorporated in 1741, and contains several historic homes, though some were replaced by larger modern structures in the late 20th Century.

Blandford was first settled in 1735 by Scots-Irish settlers and was officially incorporated in 1741.

The town would be incorporated in 1741.

Initially Northfield was incorporated as part of Canterbury when that town was established in 1741.

Warren was first settled in 1664 and was officially incorporated on January 16, 1741 as the town of Western.

Settled in 1741, this town did not get its incorporated name until 1778.

Much of the material was incorporated by Richard Challoner in his Memoirs of Missionary Priests ( 1741 ), and the manuscript is now in the Public Record Office in Brussels.

When the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border was surveyed and adjusted in 1741, the northern part of the town was determined to be in New Hampshire, and was incorporated as a New Hampshire town in 1746.

It was home to the Woolwich Dockyard ( founded in 1512 ), the Royal Arsenal ( dating back to 1471 ), the Royal Military Academy ( 1741 ) and the Royal Horse Artillery ( 1793 ); the town still retains an army base at the Royal Artillery Barracks ( although 16RA Royal Artillery left in 2007, Woolwich Barracks still house the Royal Artillery Band and more recently Second Battalion Princess of Wales Royal Regiment and Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery ), and the Royal Artillery Museum, Firepower.

But at New Hampshire's 1741 separation from Massachusetts, the grant was ruled invalid and substituted with Wilton, Maine, so Governor Benning Wentworth rechartered the town in 1751 as Derryfield.

The town is derived from the Northampton Patent of 1741.

However, by 1741, enough farmers ( about 100 families ) had settled in the area that they petitioned the General Assembly of Rhode Island to create their own town.

In 1741 the more rural western three-quarters of the town was set off as West Greenwich, the remaining quarter of it thenceforth being called East Greenwich.

While he was away at war ( the War of Jenkins ' Ear, 1739 – 1743 ), Lawrence wrote to his father from Jamaica in May 1741, that, should he survive the war, he intended to make his home in the town of Fredericksburg, building a town home on one of the three lots he owned there.

Few buildings in Southam date from before 1741, for in that year a large fire devastated the town.

The town was part of the Sacandaga Patent of 1741.

The town was established as a trading post by Jacob Severin's company in 1741 and named in his honor.

Together with most of Silesia, the town became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1741.

The Spanish quickly recovered the Panamanian town and defeated Admiral Vernon in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741.

The abolitionist Dr William Withering was born in the town in 1741 ; he also investigated digitalis, used in the treatment of heart disease.

Its Tunisian fellow islet off the town of Tabarka was a part of the Republic of Genoa till 1741 when it was conquered by the Bey of Tunis.

In 1699 – 1741 a Dominican monastery and in 1704 – 1720 a brick Holy Trinity church was built in the town.