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Events from the year
1741
in
Great Britain
.
Incumbents
Monarch
–
George II
Prime Minister
–
Robert Walpole
(
Whig
)
[
1
]
Events
13 February –
Robert Walpole
, the Prime Minister, introduces the term "
balance of power
" in a speech in Parliament.
[
2
]
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
.
[
3
]
[
4
]
Kitty Clive
plays the
travesti
role of
Portia
.
[
5
]
March –
Lancelot "Capability" Brown
joins
Lord Cobham
's gardening staff at
Stowe, Buckinghamshire
.
[
6
]
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.
[
7
]
13 April – The
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
, is established to train
officers
of the
Royal Artillery
and
Royal Engineers
.
[
8
]
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.
[
9
]
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.
[
10
]
21 May – George II orders the
British Army
to prepare for an invasion of Prussia to defend his
Electorate of Hanover
.
[
11
]
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 boroughs
[
12
]
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.
[
citation needed
]
22 August–14 September –
George Frideric Handel
composes the oratorio
Messiah
in London to a libretto compiled by
Charles Jennens
,
[
13
]
completing the "Hallelujah Chorus" on 6 September.
[
14
]
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.
[
15
]
19 October – Actor
David Garrick
makes his London stage debut, in the title role of Shakespeare's
Richard III
,
[
13
]
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.
[
16
]
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
.
[
13
]
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
^
"History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK"
.
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
12 June
2023
.
^
Cryer, Max (2010).
Common Phrases: And the Amazing Stories Behind Them
. Skyhorse Publishing. p. 26.
^
Brown, John Russell (1993).
Shakespeare's Plays in Performance
. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 63.
^
Simpson, Louis (4 April 1993).
"There, They Could Say, Is the Jew"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
4 September
2013
.
^
Ritchie, Fiona (2006).
"Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Actress"
.
Borrowers and Lenders
.
2
(2)
. Retrieved
29 December
2023
.
^
Hinde, Thomas (1986).
Capability Brown: the Story of a Master Gardener
. London: Hutchinson. p. 19.
ISBN
0-09-163740-6
.
^
Luna Guinot, Dolores (2014).
From Al-Andalus to Monte Sacro
. Trafford Publishing.
^
"Royal Military Academy, Woolwich"
. Royal Engineers Museum. Archived from
the original
on 6 October 2008
. Retrieved
24 December
2008
.
^
Drake, James D. (2008). "Cartagena, Expedition against". In Tucker, Spencer (ed.).
The Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775
. Harper Collins.
^
Bown, Stephen R. (2005).
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
. Macmillan.
^
Simms, Brendan; Riotte, Torsten (2007).
The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1837
. Cambridge University Press. p. 1041.
^
"Sir Robert Walpole"
.
Prime Ministers in history
. Prime Minister's Office. Archived from
the original
on 21 August 2008
. Retrieved
27 February
2011
.
^
a
b
c
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
308–309
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
British Library
(London) MS RM.20.f.2, f106.
^
Thompson, Andrew C. (2011).
George II: King and Elector
. Yale University Press. p. 140.
^
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".
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