In 1741, after three years of building and two of on-land testing, H2 was ready, but by then Britain was at war with Spain in the War of Austrian Succession and the mechanism was deemed too important to risk falling into Spanish hands.

On 14 May 1741, Byron's ship, HMS Wager, was shipwrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and the survivors decided to split in two teams, one to make its way by boat to Rio de Janeiro, the other, John Byron's, to sail North and meet Spaniards.

Although the work lacks the literary merits of the original, Richardson was compelled to publish two more volumes in December 1741 to tell of further exploits of Pamela, the title heroine, while " in her Exalted Condition ".

In the year of 1741, two Dutchmen, Nicholas and Adolphus Brewer, purchased 750 acres of land around the falls and they built the first stone house in the village near the present Mill Street.

By 1741, after their collaboration on Saul, a warm friendship had developed between the two, and Handel was a frequent visitor to the Jennens family estate at Gopsall.

Some notable Masters did preside over the college during this time, including James Allen ( the first Master to drop the ' y ' from his surname ), who in 1741 made over to the college six houses in Kensington, the rents of which were to be used in the establishment of two small schools in Dulwich, one for boys from the village, the other for girls to read and sew, out of which James Allen's Girls ' School ( JAGS ) arose.

He was stationed in Riga, but participated in two campaigns against the Turks in 1740 and 1741.

* 1741: First depiction of a skier with two ski poles.

After he had attended Latin school at Königsberg ( 1737 – 1741 ), his parents wanted him to go in for the church, but after two years at the University of Wittenberg he determined to live the life of a scholar.

With her husband, she had two children, a boy who died a year after his birth in 1741 and Alexandrine-Jeanne ( nicknamed " Fanfan "), born 10 August 1744.

In 1741, two years after the publication of his thesis, Blair received his license as a Presbyterian preacher.

* Elisha Perkins ( 1741 – 1799 ), a popular quack doctor whose magnetic therapy, " Perkins Tractors " ( made up of two steel and brass rods with points at the ends ) convinced even George Washington to buy a set.

The formal split between Old Side and New Side only lasted from 1741 to 1758, but the two orientations remained present in the reunified church and would come to the fore again during the Second Great Awakening.

He wrote two other romances which were favorably received: The Baroness de Luz ( 1741 ) and Confessions of Count de *** ( 1747 ).

He married, on 16 October 1735, Rebecca Samborne Le Bas ( died 16 January 1765 ), daughter and heiress of Charles Samborne Le Bas, of Pipewell Abbey, Northamptonshire, by whom he had two daughters, Lady Elizabeth ( 18 June 1739-21 January 1811, buried at Hartwell ), married on 20 June 1763 Sir William Lee, 4th Baronet, of Hartwell ( 12 September 1726-6 July 1799 ) and Lady Anne ( 1741 – 1746 ), and two sons, George Simon and William, who succeeded him as 2nd and 3rd earl respectively.

When in December 1741 Bouguer, detected an error in a calculation of La Condamine, these two explorers got into a quarrel as well and stopped speaking to each other.

The Reading Schools opened on 25 June 1741 in Dulwich Village, with two mixed classes of children between six and ten years of age.

( 1726 ), and expositions of I Corinthians ( 1741 ) and the two Epistles to Timothy ( 1755 ).

The theatre presented the first paid public performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in 1700, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera in January 1728, and Handel's final two operas in 1740 and 1741.

Finally in 1741 she visited surviving siblings for the first time, and made two more visits later.

Between 1687 and 1741, a slave plot was " discovered " on average every two and one half years.

African American slave being burned at the stake after New York Conspiracy of 1741 17 black men, two white men, and two white women were hanged at the gibbet next to the Powderhouse on the narrow point of land between the Collect Pond and the Little Collect, 13 were burned at the stake a little east on Magazine ( artillery ) | Magazine Street

For 28 years, from 1713 to 1741, he was master () of the Klosterschule at Denkendorf, a seminary for candidates for the ministry established in a former monastery of the canons of the Holy Sepulchre.

Concerned about the continuing turmoil in Russia, Euler left St. Petersburg on 19 June 1741 to take up a post at the Berlin Academy, which he had been offered by Frederick the Great of Prussia.

* 1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, commencing the New York Conspiracy of 1741.

Since 1741 Stangate Creek ( on the Medway ) had been made the quarantine station at home ; but it would appear from the above clause that it was available only for vessels with clean bills.

The Irish famine of 1740 – 1741 claimed the lives of at least 300, 000 people.

Sweden's dissatisfaction with the result led to fruitless attempts at recovering the lost territories in the course of the following century, such as the Russo-Swedish War ( 1741 – 1743 ), and the Russo-Swedish War ( 1788 – 1790 ).

Vernon block port ordered the March 13, 1741, while landed a contingent of troops and artillery destined to take the Fort de San Luis de Bocachica a few meters from where now stands the Fort of San Fernando de Bocachica, against that simultaneously fired British ships at a rate of 62 per hour cannon.

In March 1741, the city endured a large-scale attack by British and American colonial troops led by Admiral Edward Vernon ( 1684 – 1757 ), who arrived at Cartagena with a massive fleet of 186 ships and 23, 600 men, including 12, 000 infantry, against six Spanish ships and fewer than 6, 000 men, in an action known as the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, part of the War of Jenkin's Ear.

Upon its completion in 1741, the Old Colony House at the head of what is now known as Washington Square served as a seat of Rhode Island's government, until the current Rhode Island State House in Providence was completed in 1904 and Providence became the state's sole capital city.

It was performed in 1741 at Goodman's Fields Theatre and in 1742 at Covent Garden.

* George Dance ( 1741 – 1825 ), architect lived at 91 Gower Street.

It was home to the Woolwich Dockyard ( founded in 1512 ), the Royal Arsenal ( dating back to 1471 ), the Royal Military Academy ( 1741 ) and the Royal Horse Artillery ( 1793 ); the town still retains an army base at the Royal Artillery Barracks ( although 16RA Royal Artillery left in 2007, Woolwich Barracks still house the Royal Artillery Band and more recently Second Battalion Princess of Wales Royal Regiment and Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery ), and the Royal Artillery Museum, Firepower.

In the aftermath of the New York Slave Revolt of 1712, 20 people were burnt, and during the alleged slave conspiracy of 1741, no less than 13 slaves were burnt at the stake.

For example, Admiral Sir Charles Wager, a son and grandson of Kentish mariners, held the office of West Looe MP early ( 1713 – 1715 ) and at the end ( 1741 – 1743 ) of his political career.

) Other notable Revolutionary War era residents included Asa Pollard ( 1735 – 1775 ), the first soldier killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Thomas Ditson ( born 1741 ), who was tarred and feathered by the British in 1775 while on a visit to Boston.

But at New Hampshire's 1741 separation from Massachusetts, the grant was ruled invalid and substituted with Wilton, Maine, so Governor Benning Wentworth rechartered the town in 1751 as Derryfield.

Oxford Furnace, built in 1741, it was the third furnace in Colonial New Jersey and the first constructed at a site where iron ore was mined.

Karl Friedrich Bahrdt ( August 25, 1741 – April 23, 1792 ), German theologian and adventurer, was born at Bischofswerda, Upper Lusatia, where his father, afterwards professor, canon and general superintendent at Leipzig, was pastor.

Thirteen months later, a coup d ' état placed the Empress Elizabeth on the throne ( 6 December 1741 ), and Ivan and his family were imprisoned in the fortress of Dünamünde ( 13 December 1742 ) after a preliminary detention at Riga, whence the new Empress had at first decided to send them home to Brunswick.

" After arriving in Dublin on 18 November 1741, Handel arranged a subscription series of six concerts, to be held between December 1741 and February 1742 at the Great Music Hall, Fishamble Street.