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Malplaquet House, east London, England, built. Berlin Court Opera, designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, inaugurated. Queen Mary Court at Greenwich Hospital, London, planned by Wren (d.1723) and Hawksmoor (d.1736), completed by Thomas Ripley. Redland Chapel, Bristol, England, designed probably by John Strahan or William Halfpenny, built.
Messiah (Handel) Messiah. (Handel) Messiah ( HWV 56) [1] [n 1] is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter [n 2] by Charles Jennens. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere a year later.
Stirling Castle. (1742) French Firerafts Attacking the British Fleet off Quebec, 28 June 1759 by Samuel Scott. The left foreground of the picture is taken up with the anchored British fleet in which Saunders' flagship, Stirling Castle, is in starboard-quarter view in the foreground just left of centre. HMS Stirling Castle was a 70-gun third ...
Edward Buncombe (1742–1778) was a plantation owner from the Province of North Carolina who served as a colonel in the North Carolina militia and Continental Army (the army of the Patriot side) in the American Revolutionary War. He is the namesake of Buncombe County in western North Carolina. In 1820, his surname (in its status as the name of ...
14 × 4-pounder guns. HMS Baltimore was a Royal Navy sloop-of-war launched in 1742, designed by and named after Lord Baltimore who at the time was a Lord of the Admiralty . As launched, Baltimore had bilander rig, but in 1743 she was fitted with a conventional snow rig. Although her sides were pierced for 18 guns, she actually carried 14 four ...
2 1742. u temama. 3 Rođeni. 4 Umrli. Uključi/isključi sadržaj. 1742. 159 jezika. ... Wikipedia® je zaštitni znak neprofitne organizacije Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Events. 13 November– The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is founded as a historical Collegium Antiquitatum. It was founded by secretary of state, Count Johan Ludvig Holstein and the history professor Hans Gram. [2]
