1741 in Great Britain
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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)
