18 August – War of the Spanish Succession: Capture of Menorca by British forces.[1]
23 August – Queen Anne attends a thanksgiving service at the new St Paul's Cathedral in London for victory at the Battle of Oudenarde. She quarrels publicly with Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough;[4] and loose bolts in the supporting beams above her – in fact, the result of poor workmanship – are interpreted by the opposition as the "Screw Plot", a Whig assassination attempt.[5]
12 October – War of the Spanish Succession: British forces capture Lille after a two-month siege, although the citadel continues to hold out for another six weeks.[2]
Edward Lhuyd becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society.
The Parliament of Great Britain passes an act prohibiting the British government from accepting plunder taken by privateers.[8]
Merger (with consent of Parliament) of the Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies and the more recently established English Company Trading to the East Indies to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies, known as the Honourable East India Company.[9]
Publicationsedit
Proseedit
Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War (pro-Marlborough tract)
John Downes – Roscius Anglicanus (a historical review of the stage)
John Fisher, Cardinal Bishop of Rochester (executed 1535) – Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (originally delivered 1509; published with an anonymous preface by Thomas Baker)
Moll Davis, entertainer and courtesan, a mistress of King Charles II (born c. 1648)
"Father" Bernard Smith, organ builder (born c. 1630 in Germany)
Thomas Ward, exiled Catholic convert and controversialist (born 1652)
Referencesedit
^ abcdWilliams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 292. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ abPalmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 205–206. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^"Union with Scotland (Amendment ) Act 1707". Retrieved 2008-02-10.
^St. Paul's: The Cathedral Church of London, 604-2004. 2004. p. 366. ISBN 0-300-09276-8.
^Simpson, W. Sparrow (1892-10-08). "The Screw Plot". Notes and Queries (41).
^"Stamps celebrate St Paul's with Wren epitaph". Evening Standard. London. 13 May 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-19. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
^Majdalany, Fred (1959). The Red Rocks of Eddystone. London: Longmans. p. 86.
^Pringle, Patrick (2001). Jolly Roger: the Story of the Great Age of Piracy. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. pp. 98, 177. ISBN 0-486-41823-5.
^Landow, George P. (2010). "The British East India Company – the Company that Owned a Nation (or Two)". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
^ abcdefghCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^"History of William Pitt 'The Elder', 1st Earl of Chatham - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 June 2023.