January 27 – A fire at the prison and barracks atKinsale, inIreland, kills 54 of the prisoners of war housed there. An estimated 500 prisoners are safely conducted to another prison.[2]
March 25 – A fire in theCity of London starts atChange Alley inCornhill and continues for two days. Dr.Samuel Johnson later writes, "The conflagration of a city, with all its turmoil and concominant distress, is one of the most dreadful spectacles which this world can afford to human eyes".[2] Another history notes more than a century later that "the fire led to a great increase in the practice offire insurance", after the blaze causes more than £1,000,000 worth of damage.
May 10 – As word arrives that the Dutch Republic has agreed to return control ofMaastricht toFrance, the French Army's leader of thesiege,Count Löwendal, marches through the opened city gates with his troops and accepts its surrender.[4]
A fire inMoscow kills 482 people and destroys 5,000 buildings.[2]
José de Escandón is designated by the Viceroy of New Spain as the first Royal Governor ofNuevo Santander. The area covered by the Viceroyalty's new province is now part of the Mexican state ofTamaulipas, and the part of the U.S. state ofTexas south of theGuadalupe River (including San Antonio and Corpus Christi).
July 29 –Royal Navy AdmiralEdward Boscawen arrives at the coast of southeasternIndia with 28 ships, to defendFort St. David from attacks by armies ofFrench India. HistorianFrancis Grose later writes that Boscawen had brought the largest fleet "ever seen together in the East Indies", with nine ships of the line, two frigates, a sloop, and two tenders"[5] and 14 ships of the British East India Company. Altogether, Boscawen has 3,580 sailors under his command. He then launches an offensive to destroy the French fort atPondicherry and drive France from the subcontinent.
August 26 – The firstLutheran Church body in America is founded at a conference inPhiladelphia, organized by German-born evangelistHenry Muhlenberg and attended by pastors of orthodox and pious Lutheran communities.[6] The two groups agree to create a commonliturgy to govern public worship.
August – TheCamberwell beauty butterfly is named after specimens found at Camberwell in London.
^abc"Fires, Great", inThe Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p51
^Elizabeth A. H. John,Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996) pp282-283
^Francis Henry Skrine,Fontenoy and Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1741-1748 (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1906) pp346-347
^Charles Rathbone Low,History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863) (Richard Bentley and Son, 1877) p140
^Henry Eyster Jacobs,A History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States (The Christian Literature Co., 1893 p243
^H. Parker Willis (December 1895)."Income Taxation in France".Journal of Political Economy.4 (1). The University of Chicago Press:37–53.doi:10.1086/250324.S2CID154527133.The war of the Austrian Succession for the third time threw the treasury back upon the hated fiscal resource in October of 1741, when the income tax was reintroduced accompanied by a royal promise to the effect that upon the close of the war this means of raising revenue should once for all be done away with.
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