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Events
April 10 – Austrian army attack troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz
December 19 – Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia
December 25 – Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale Celsius
William Browning invents mineral water
Elizabeth of Russia became czarina.
Ongoing events
War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
Births
January 14 - Benedict Arnold, General in United States' Revolutionary War, turncoat (d. 1801)
March 13 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
March 25 - Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor
September 22 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
October 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
William Withering, British doctor
Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler under the Ottoman Empire
Emperor Momozono of Japan
Deaths
July 28 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
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