200 years in art: 1741

Pietro Longhi

Giovanni Antonio Guardi

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin

Jacques-André-Joseph Aved

Robert Feke

From Wikipedia:

January–June

• April 10 – The Austrian army attacks troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz.
• April – The New York Slave Insurrection of 1741, a plot to torch New York City, is discovered.
• June 25 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen Regnant of Hungary in Bratislava.

July–December

• July 15 – Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends some men aboard in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
• August 10 – Battle of Colachel: The Raja of Travancore defeats a Dutch East India Company naval expedition.
• December 6 – Elizabeth of Russia becomes czarina after a palace coup.
• December 19 – Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia.
• December 25 – Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale, Centigrade the predecessor of the Celsius scale.

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