Editing 1741 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===  
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]] repeats his ''[[Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God]]'' sermon at [[Enfield, Connecticut]].
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Alexei Chirikov]] sights land in [[Southeast Alaska]], and sends some men aboard his ship ashore in a [[longboat]], making them the first Europeans to visit [[Alaska]].
* [[August 4]]&ndash;[[August 5|5]] &ndash; [[War of Jenkins' Ear]]: [[Invasion of Cuba (1741)|Invasion of Cuba]] &ndash; British Admiral [[Edward Vernon]] captures [[Guantánamo Bay]] in [[Cuba]], which he renames Cumberland Bay, but which his forces are forced to abandon on [[December 9]].
* [[August 10]] &ndash; Raja [[Marthanda Varma]] of [[Travancore]] defeats the [[Dutch East India Company]] in the [[Battle of Colachel]], ending the Dutch colonial rule in India and marking the first "major" defeat of a European colonial military power in India.
* [[August 23]] &ndash; At least 2,000 die along the shores of the Sea of Japan after a volcanic eruption on an island generated the [[1741 eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami|Kampo Tsunami]].<ref name="Tsunami Event Information  W. HOKKAIDO ISLAND">{{cite web |title=Tsunami Event Information W. HOKKAIDO ISLAND |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-more-info/419 |website=NGDC NCEI |publisher=NCEI |access-date=30 March 2021}}</ref>
*[[September 11]] &ndash; [[War of the Austrian Succession]]: [[Linz]] falls to the [[Bavarian Army]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Joachim|last=Whaley|title=Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume '''II''': The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648-1806|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2012|page=354}}</ref>