Sammartini was not, primarily, a composer of opera, his main output being of sacred music and symphonies, but Milan boasted a vibrant opera scene, and Gluck soon formed an association with one of the city's up-and-coming opera houses, the Teatro Regio Ducal, where his first opera, Artaserse, was performed on 26 December 1741.

In the War of the Austrian Succession he took command of an army division sent to invade Austria in 1741, and on 19 November 1741, surprised Prague during the night, and seized it before the garrison was aware of the presence of an enemy, a coup de main which made him famous throughout Europe ; he thus repeated the exploit of 1648 of his maternal great-grandfather, Hans Christoff von Königsmarck.

The oldest religious building, the main church Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Monte was constructed in 1741.

In the War of Austrian Succession, the British carried out unsuccessful attacks against Santiago de Cuba in 1741 and again in 1748.

* October 6 – William Withering, a British physician ( b. 1741 )

* List of Presidents of the British Virgin Islands ( 1741 – 1887 )

Category: British MPs 1734 – 1741

Category: British MPs 1741 – 1747

Vernon block port ordered the March 13, 1741, while landed a contingent of troops and artillery destined to take the Fort de San Luis de Bocachica a few meters from where now stands the Fort of San Fernando de Bocachica, against that simultaneously fired British ships at a rate of 62 per hour cannon.

The largest action of the war was a major amphibious attack launched by the British under Admiral Edward Vernon in March, 1741 against Cartagena de Indias, one of Spain's principal gold-trading ports in their colony of New Granada ( today Colombia ).

He was followed, but when the British force came in sight of him Navarro had been joined by a French squadron under Claude-Elisée de La Bruyère de Court ( December 1741 ).

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.

Henry Jethro William Tull ( 30 March 1674 – 21 February 1741 ), known as Jethro Tull, was an English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution.

) Other notable Revolutionary War era residents included Asa Pollard ( 1735 – 1775 ), the first soldier killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Thomas Ditson ( born 1741 ), who was tarred and feathered by the British in 1775 while on a visit to Boston.

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.

* John Barclay ( marine ) ( 1741 – 1823 ), British Royal Marines general

Category: British MPs 1734 – 1741

Category: British MPs 1741 – 1747

He made his debut as a professional actor at Ipswich in 1741 in Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave, a play by the British dramatist Thomas Southerne.

Category: British MPs 1741 – 1747

Henry Fuseli ( German: Johann Heinrich Füssli ) ( February 7, 1741 – April 17, 1825 ) was a British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of Swiss origin.

Hester Lynch Thrale ( born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage, Hester Lynch Piozzi ) ( 27 January 1741 – 2 May 1821 ) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts.

William Shirley ( 2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( 1741 – 1749 and 1753 – 1756 ) and as Governor of the Bahamas in the 1760s.

Category: British MPs 1734 – 1741

Category: British MPs 1741 – 1747

Category: British MPs 1741 – 1747

* John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse ( 1741 – 1834 ), British MP and then peer

In the uneventful summer campaign of 1741 he had found time to begin that reorganization of his cavalry which was before long to make it even more efficient than his infantry.

In 1739, British Admiral Edward Vernon raided Portobello, but in 1741 his massive campaign against Cartagena de Indias ended in defeat with heavy losses of men and ships.

* 18 July 1741 — Vice Admiral Edward Vernon, with 3, 000 British troops under General Wentworth, arrived at Guantánamo Bay to begin an unsuccessful campaign against Santiago.

On 22 December 1741, Benedict XIV promulgated the papal bull " Immensa Pastorum principis " against the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other countries.

In 1741, Travancore won the Battle of Colachel against the Dutch East India Company, resulting in the complete eclipse of Dutch power in the region.

He was stationed in Riga, but participated in two campaigns against the Turks in 1740 and 1741.

In 1741 he was sent from England to St. Helena to investigate charges of corruption brought against the acting governor, and from May 1741 until March 1742 he administered the affairs of the island.

The most obvious method of rendering the Russian alliance unserviceable to the queen of Hungary was by implicating Russia in hostilities with her ancient rival, Sweden, and this was brought about, by French influence and French money, when in August 1741 the Swedish government, on the most frivolous pretexts, declared war against Russia.

On July 20, 1741 war was formally declared against Russia ; a month later the Diet was dissolved and the lantmarskalk set off to Finland to take command of the army.

Richardson ’ s epistolary tale of a resolute servant girl, armed only with her ‘ virtue ’, battling against her master ’ s attempts at seduction had become an overnight literary sensation in 1741.

In 1741, Pope finally prevailed against Curll in the courts.

In 1741 he was named lieutenant of a ship of the provincial guarda-costa, or coast guard, which the colony had established to protect against potential Spanish attack.

Made lieutenant in 1739, he participated in the 1741 expedition against Cartagena, serving on the frigate Norfolk, under his uncle and future admiral, Captain Thomas Graves.

With the Treaty of Nymphenburg signed in July 1741, Charles Albert allied with France and Spain against Austria.

The Travancore Nair Infantry was formed in 1704 for the defense of the Maharajah Marthanda Varma, and distinguished themselves in battle against the Dutch at the Battle of Colachel ( 1741 ).

In 2004, the Delaware Nation filed suit against Pennsylvania in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, seeking included in the 1737 Walking Purchase and patented in 1741, which was known as " Tatamy's Place.

VOC ’ s dire situation after the Battle of Tugu in July 1741 did not escape the king ’ s attention, but – like Amangkurat II – he avoided any open breach with VOC since his own kraton was not lacking of factions against him.

As the war was badly prepared and without the expected initial success, anger rose against the king within the military ranks deployed to Finland, where the memory of the harsh Russian occupations of 1713 – 21 ( the " Greater Wrath ") ( Isoviha in Finnish ) and 1741 – 43 ( the " Lesser Wrath ") ( Pikkuviha in Finnish ) remained vivid.

In 1741 Adam was forced to initiate legal proceedings against William, Lord Braco, to retrieve unpaid fees arising from his work at Duff House.

In 1741 appeared a ‘ Discourse on Miracles ,’ arguing that they can at most afford a ‘ probable proof ’ of a revelation ; in 1743 an ‘ Enquiry concerning Redemption ,’ in which he defends himself against some sneers of William Warburton's ; and in 1745, ‘ The Ground and Foundation of Morality considered ,’ an attack on Thomas Rutherforth's theory of self-love.