Editing 1741 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===  
*[[October 12]] &ndash; George II, as Elector of Hanover, signs the Neustadt Protocol with France, but fails to inform his British government until after his return from Germany.<ref>{{cite book|first=Andrew C.|last=Thompson|title=George II: King and Elector|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2011|page=140}}</ref> 
* [[November 25]]&ndash;[[November 26|26]] &ndash; [[War of the Austrian Succession]]: Franco-Bavarian troops commanded by [[Maurice of Saxony]] storm in [[Battle of Prague (1741)|Battle of Prague]] city [[Prague]].
* [[December 6]] (November 25, O.S.) &ndash; [[Elizabeth of Russia]] becomes czarina after a palace coup.<ref>{{cite book|first=Spencer|last=Tucker|title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East|location=Santa Barbara|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2010|page=739}}</ref>
*[[December 7]]
**[[War of the Austrian Succession]]: [[Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles Albert of Bavaria]] has himself proclaimed [[List of Bohemian monarchs#King of Bohemia|King of Bohemia]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Hugh LeCaine|last=Agnew|title=The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown|publisher=Hoover Press|year=2004|page=1871}}</ref>
**[[Aleksei Chirikov]] of Russia presents the first written description of the northwest coast of North America.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Chirikov, Alexei|first=Anna|last=Shishigina|title=Encyclopedia of the Arctic|editor=Nuttall, Mark|publisher=Routledge|year=2005|page=333}}</ref>
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Vitus Bering]] dies during his expedition, east of [[Siberia]].
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Anders Celsius]] develops his own [[thermometer]] scale, ''Centigrade'', the predecessor of the [[Celsius]] scale.