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| 1740 |
| | | Jack Broughton, champion of England, opens an academy to teach 'the mystery of boxing, that wholly British art' | |
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| 1740 |
| | | The Habsburg emperor Charles VI dies and is succeeded by his elder daughter, the 23-year-old Maria Theresa | |
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| 1740 |
| | | Frederick II, the king of Prussia, invades the neighbouring Habsburg province of Silesia, launching the War of the Austrian Succession | |
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| 1741 |
| | | The American Magazine and the General Magazine both begin a short-lived existence | |
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| 1741 |
| | | J.S. Bach publishes his set of Goldberg Variations, supposedly written for performance by the young harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg | |
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| 1741 |
| | | Frederick's Prussian army defeats the Austrians at Mollwitz, securing his hold on most of Silesia | |
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| 1741 |
| | | American revivalism is inflamed by Jonathan Edwards' vivid sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
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| 1741 |
| | | Venice's new theatre, the Teatro Novissimo, has machinery which can change the scenes in the blink of an eye | |
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| 1741 |
| | | French and Bavarian armies join the war against Austria, marching through upper Austria into Bohemia | |
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| 1741 |
| | | Spain, now an ally of France, joins in the war against Austria | |
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