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| 173538 |
| | | The Asam brothers build at their own expense the tiny and brilliant baroque church of St John Nepomuk, attached to their own house in Munich | |
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| 1740 |
| | | Frederick II, inheriting the throne in Prussia, establishes a cultured and musical court | |
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| 1740 |
| | | Frederick II, the king of Prussia, invades the neighbouring Habsburg province of Silesia, launching the War of the Austrian Succession | |
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| 1741 |
| | | J.S. Bach publishes his set of Goldberg Variations, supposedly written for performance by the young harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg | |
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| 1742 |
| | | An Austrian army captures the Bavarian capital city, Munich | |
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| 1743 |
| | | George II leads a British army to victory over the French at Dettingen | |
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| 1744 |
| | | J.S. Bach publishes another set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, as an addition to his previous Well-Tempered Clavier | |
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| 1745 |
| | | The principle of the Leyden jar is discovered by an amateur German physicist, Ewald Georg von Kleist, dean of the cathedral in Kamin | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Frederick the Great's Prussian soldiers, advancing in shallow disciplined formation, outclass other armies of the time | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Frederick II's three victories in 1745 cause him to be known by his contemporaries as Frederick the Great | |
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