1741 in Great Britain

none November 2022 November 2022 1741 yes Events from the year 1741 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/robert-walpole www.gov.uk 12 June 2023 en Events 13 February – Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister, introduces the term "balance of power" in a speech in Parliament.Max Cryer Common Phrases: And the Amazing Stories Behind Them Skyhorse Publishing 2010 26 14 February – Irish-born actor Charles Macklin makes his London stage debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, pioneering a psychologically realistic style with Shakespeare's text revived, replacing George Granville's melodramatic adaptation The Jew of Venice.John Russell Brown Shakespeare's Plays in Performance Hal Leonard Corporation 1993 63There, They Could Say, Is the Jew 1993-04-04 Louis Simpson https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/gross-shylock.html The New York Times 2013-09-04 Kitty Clive plays the travesti role of Portia.Fiona Ritchie Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Actress Borrowers and Lenders 2 2 2006 https://borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/article/view/50 2023-12-29 March – Lancelot "Capability" Brown joins Lord Cobham's gardening staff at Stowe, Buckinghamshire.Thomas Hinde Capability Brown: the Story of a Master Gardener London Hutchinson 1986 0-09-163740-6 19 13 March – The Royal Navy brings 180 warships, frigates and transport vessels, led by Admiral Edward Vernon, to threaten Cartagena, Colombia, with more than 27,000 crew against the 3,600 defenders.Dolores Luna Guinot From Al-Andalus to Monte Sacro Trafford Publishing 2014 13 April – The Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, is established to train officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers.Royal Engineers Museum Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 2008-12-24 http://www.remuseum.org.uk/articles/rem_article_academy.htm 2008-10-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20081006072508/http://www.remuseum.org.uk/articles/rem_article_academy.htm dead 9 May – War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of Cartagena de Indias – Spain's defenders in New Grenada, under the command of General Blas de Lezo, defeat Vernon's Royal Navy force, leading to a British retreat to Jamaica.Cartagena, Expedition against James D. Drake The Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775 Tucker, Spencer Harper Collins 2008 14 May – HMS Wager, one of the vessels of George Anson's voyage around the world is wrecked on the coast of Chile, killing most of the surviving crew.Stephen R. Bown Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail Macmillan 2005 21 May – George II orders the British Army to prepare for an invasion of Prussia to defend his Electorate of Hanover.Brendan Simms Torsten Riotte The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1837 Cambridge University Press 2007 1041 11 June – 1741 British general election, begun on 30 April, concludes with Prime Minister Robert Walpole's Whigs retaining their majority in the House of Commons but losing control of a number of rotten and pocket boroughshttp://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page174.asp Sir Robert Walpole Prime Ministers in history Prime Minister's Office 2011-02-27 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080821191827/http://pm.gov.uk/output/Page174.asp 2008-08-21 with 44 seats lost to candidates who have defected to the new Patriot Whigs to oppose Walpole's policies. 18 July – War of Jenkins' Ear: Invasion of Cuba – Admiral Edward Vernon arrives at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. 4/5 August–9 December – Vernon captures Guantánamo Bay and renames it Cumberland Bay. His troops hold it but are resisted by local guerrilla forces and withdraw.November 2022 22 August–14 September – George Frideric Handel composes the oratorio Messiah in London to a libretto compiled by Charles Jennens, completing the "Hallelujah Chorus" on 6 September.British Library (London) MS RM.20.f.2, f106. It receives a private rehearsal in Chester in November while Handel is en route to Dublin. 12 October – 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.Andrew C. Thompson George II: King and Elector Yale University Press 2011 140 19 October – Actor David Garrick makes his London stage debut, in the title role of Shakespeare's Richard III, having made his professional debut at Ipswich in Oroonoko earlier in the year. 11 December – At 11 a.m. a "fire-ball" and explosion, perhaps resulting from a meteor, is heard over southern England.Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. "a countryman ... saw a flash of Lightning Before he heard the Noise ... The sound was double ... a Ball of Fire ... took its Course to the East ... over Westminster ... it divided into Two Heads [and] left a Train of Smoke ... which continued ascending for 20 minutes". Summer – Upper Priory Cotton Mill is opened in Birmingham as the world's first mechanised cotton mill by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt; although this is not a commercial success, other Paul-Wyatt cotton mills follow.Baker John Leon 2004 30106 Wyatt, John (1700–1766) Henry Hoare begins to lay out the landscape gardens at Stourhead, Wiltshire. Publications April – Henry Fielding's anonymous An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews satirising Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/308 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 308–309 Isaac Watts' The Improvement of the Mind. Births 6 January – Sarah Trimmer, née Kirby, writer for children (died 1810) 27 January – Hester Thrale, née Salusbury, diarist (died 1821) 17 March – William Withering, physician (died 1799) c. April/May? – Henry Cort, ironmaster (died 1800) 11 September – Arthur Young, agriculturist and writer on social and political matters (died 1820) Deaths 21 February – Jethro Tull, agriculturist (born 1674) 10 April – Celia Fiennes, travel writer (born 1662) 24 May – Lord Augustus FitzRoy, Royal Navy officer (born 1716) August – David Owen, Welsh harpist (born 1712) 31 December – Andrew Archer, politician (born 1659) See also 1741 in Wales References 1741 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1741 by country Category:1741 in Europe Category:1740s in Great Britain