1870 Birthday Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist, Richard Mahoney 1818 Event Handel's Messiah, U.S. premieres in Boston 1762 Event Roubiliacs monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey 1759 Death Georg Friedrich Handel, buried in Westminster Abbey 1759 Death Georg Friedrich Handel, organist/composer (Watermusic), dies at 74 1752 Event Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation 1751 Event Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha" 1743 Event English premiere of Handel's "Messiah" 1743 Event George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London 1742 Event George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" performed for 1st time (Dublin) 1741 Event George Frederick Handel's "The Messiah," premieres in Dublin 1741 Event George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days 1736 Event Georg F Handel's "Alexander's Feast," premieres 1723 Event Georg Friedrich Handel's opera "Ottone," premieres in London 1723 Event Handel's opera "Ottone" premieres, London 1713 Event 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "To Deum" and "Jubilate" 1711 Event Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London 1685 Birthday George Friedrich Handel, Halle Germany, organist/composer, Messiah
