Handel's Messiah
1742 · Work
English-language oratorio; standing audience tradition for the Hallelujah chorus reportedly started by George II.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England, Christianity
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
Around 1742
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)