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1741| 1716–1745 | Japan [political events] | Yoshimune, of the Tokugawa house of Kii, succeeds Ienobu as shogun (military ruler) of Japan. | | 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1741 | England [literature and language] | The English writer Henry Fielding anonymously publishes Shamela, a satirical parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740). | | 5 June 1741 | France, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Silesia, Habsburg Monarchy, Germany [treaties] | The Treaty of Breslau is signed between France and Prussia to partition the Holy Roman Empire, following the breakdown of King Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia's negotiations with the archduchess of Austria Maria Theresa. Prussia is to receive Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) and Lower Silesia and, in return, to recognize the elector Charles Albert of Bavaria as emperor and to recognize the Sulzbach family in the duchies of Jülich and Berg. | | 28 July 1741 | Italy [births and deaths] | Antonio Vivaldi, important Italian composer during the baroque period, dies in Vienna (now in Austria) (63). | | 12 December 1741 | Spain, Tuscany, Holy Roman Empire, Italy [War of the Austrian Succession (1740–46)] | Spanish troops land in Tuscany. King Philip V of Spain is ambitious to acquire for Philip, his second son by Elizabeth Farnese, the major part of the lands of Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, in Italy and, if possible, those of her consort Francis Stephen, Grand Duke of Tuscany. | | 12 December 1741 | Russia [political events] | Elizabeth, the surviving daughter of the former tsar Peter I the Great, becomes empress of Russia after a bloodless coup d'etat, ousting the infant Ivan VI and the regent Anna Leopoldovna (Princess Anna Leopoldovna of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel). |
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