1741 in Great Britain

1741 in Great Britain:

Other years

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Sport

1741 English cricket season

Events from the year 1741 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George II
• Prime Minister - Robert Walpole (Whig)

Events

• 30 April–11 June. A general election is held but is a disappointing result for Robert Walpole.^[1]
• March - Lancelot "Capability" Brown joins Lord Cobham's gardening staff at Stowe, Buckinghamshire.^[2]
• 22 August–14 September - George Frideric Handel composes the oratorio Messiah in London to a libretto compiled by Charles Jennens.^[3]
• 19 October - London stage debut of actor David Garrick in Richard III,^[3] having made his professional debut at Ipswich in Oroonoko earlier in the year.
• War of Jenkins' Ear - Admiral Edward Vernon captures Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, renaming it Cumberland Bay. His troops are resisted by local guerrilla forces and withdraw.
• The Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, is established to train officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers.^[4]
• Henry Hoare begins to lay out the landscape gardens at Stourhead, Wiltshire.

Publications

• April - Henry Fielding's An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews satirising Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded.^[3]
• Isaac Watts' The Improvement of the Mind.

Births

• 27 January - Hester Thrale, diarist (died 1821)
• 17 March - William Withering, physician (died 1799)
• c. April/May? - Henry Cort, ironmaster (died 1800)
• 11 September - Arthur Young, writer (died 1820)

Deaths

• 21 February - Jethro Tull, agriculturist (born 1674)
• August - David Owen, Welsh harpist (born 1712)

References

1. "Sir Robert Walpole". Prime Ministers in history. Prime Minister's Office. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
2. Hinde, Thomas (1986). Capability Brown: the Story of a Master Gardener. London: Hutchinson. p. 19. ISBN 0-09-163740-6.
3. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 308–309. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
4. "Royal Military Academy, Woolwich". Royal Engineers Museum. Retrieved 2008-12-24.

See also