Compositions   1717: Water Music 1720: Acis and Galatea 1727: Zadok the Priest 1738: Xerxes 1739: Saul 1739: 12 Concerto Grossi 1742: Messiah 1743: Samson 1746: Judas Maccabaeus 1749: Music for the Royal Fireworks	World Politics 1715: Death of Louis XIV of France           1740: Frederick the Great rules Prussia         1762: Catherine the Great in Russia