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1737 in Great Britain
Summary
Events from the year
1737 in Great Britain
.
1737 in Great Britain:
Other years
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1739
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1737 English cricket season
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
George II
Regent
–
Caroline, Queen Consort
(until 14 January)
[1]
Prime Minister
–
Robert Walpole
(
Whig
)
[2]
Events
edit
January –
John Potter
appointed as
Archbishop of Canterbury
(installed 28 February).
2 March –
Samuel Johnson
and his former pupil
David Garrick
leave
Lichfield
to seek their fortunes in London.
17 May – construction of the circular
Radcliffe Library
at the
University of Oxford
begins.
[3]
28 May – the
planet
Venus
passes in front of
Mercury
. The event is witnessed during the evening by amateur
astronomer
John Bevis
at the
Royal Greenwich Observatory
. As of 2006, it is the only such planet/planet occultation to be directly observed.
21 June – the
Licensing Act
requires plays to be submitted to the
Lord Chamberlain
for
censorship
and reduces the number of legitimate theatres.
[4]
10 October –
King George II
expels
Frederick, Prince of Wales
from the royal court for criticising the government.
[3]
c. 3 November –
Alexander Cruden
's
A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament
first published.
December –
Bristol Infirmary
admits its first patients. This year also
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
is founded.
Undated
Welsh Methodist revival
:
Religious conversion
of
William Williams Pantycelyn
after hearing
Howel Harris
preach in
Talgarth
churchyard.
The Whole Duty of a Woman
"by a lady" includes a recipe for "a dripping pudding", the first record of
Yorkshire pudding
.
Births
edit
29 January –
Thomas Paine
, pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical and intellectual (died
1809
, New York)
19 April –
John Small
, cricketer (died
1826
)
27 April –
Edward Gibbon
, historian (died
1794
)
2 May –
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
,
Prime Minister
(died
1805
)
[5]
31 July –
Princess Augusta of Great Britain
, member of the Royal Family (died
1813
)
11 August –
Joseph Nollekens
, sculptor (died
1823
)
14 August –
Charles Hutton
, mathematician (died
1823
)
1 October –
Charles Towneley
, antiquary (died
1805
)
date unknown
Frances Abington
, actress (died
1815
)
[6]
Richard Watson
, bishop and academic (died
1816
)
Deaths
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24 January –
William Wake
,
Archbishop of Canterbury
(born
1657
)
29 January –
George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney
, soldier (born
1666
)
1 February –
Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick
, Lord President of the Court of Session (born
1652
)
14 February –
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol
,
Lord Chancellor
(born
1685
)
20 February –
Elizabeth Rowe
, poet and novelist (born
1674
)
4 May –
Eustace Budgell
, writer (born
1686
)
27 September –
John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester
, privy councillor (born
1680
)
29 September –
Joseph Adams
, chief factor of the
Hudson's Bay Company
. (born
1700
)
20 November –
Caroline of Ansbach
, queen of
George II of Great Britain
(born 1683,
Ansbach
)
11 December –
John Strype
, historian and biographer (born
1643
)
27 December –
William Bowyer
, printer (born
1663
)
See also
edit
1737 in Wales
References
edit
^
Pryde, E. B., ed. (1996).
Handbook of British Chronology
. Cambridge University Press. p. 46.
ISBN
978-0-521-56350-5
.
^
"History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK".
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
12 June
2023
.
^
a
b
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 215–216.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
"History of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne - GOV.UK".
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
1 July
2023
.
^
Hartley, Cathy (2003).
A Historical Dictionary of British Women
. Psychology Press. p. 1.
ISBN
9781857432282
.