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1718 in Great Britain
Summary
Events from the year
1718 in Great Britain
.
1718 in Great Britain:
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Sport
1718 English cricket season
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
George I
Events
edit
7 January –
Religious Worship Act 1718
repeals the
Occasional Conformity Act 1711
[1]
and
Schism Act 1714
, restoring some freedoms to
dissenters
.
21 March –
Piracy Act 1717
receives royal assent, providing the punishment of
penal transportation
(to British North America) as an alternative to a
death sentence
for lesser crimes.
[2]
15 May –
James Puckle
patents the
Puckle Gun
.
[3]
2 August –
Quadruple Alliance
formed between Britain, the
Kingdom of France
, the
Holy Roman Empire
and the
Dutch Republic
.
[4]
11 August – a British fleet under
Admiral Byng
defeats a Spanish fleet at the
Battle of Cape Passaro
, a prelude to the
War of the Quadruple Alliance
.
[5]
24 November – '
Calico Jack
' Rackham becomes captain of the
pirate
sloop
Ranger
in
The Bahamas
.
[6]
17 December – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Britain, the
Kingdom of France
, the
Holy Roman Empire
and the
Dutch Republic
declare war on Spain.
Undated
edit
The
Proper motion
of stars discovered by
Edmond Halley
.
[5]
Marrow Controversy
, an ecclesiastical dispute in
Scotland
, begins.
[7]
Greenwich Hospital
receives a
Royal Charter
(revoked in 1829).
[8]
The Hovering Act makes it illegal for vessels under 50 tons to linger offshore, in an attempt to prevent
smuggling
.
Births
edit
18 February –
Robert Henry
, historian (died 1790)
4 April –
Benjamin Kennicott
, churchman and Hebrew scholar (died 1783)
7 April –
Hugh Blair
, preacher and man of letters (died 1800)
17 May –
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
, diplomat and politician (died 1778)
23 May –
William Hunter
, anatomist (died 1783)
30 May –
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
, politician (died 1793)
5 June –
Thomas Chippendale
, furniture maker (died 1779)
17 June –
George Howard
, field marshal (died 1796)
5 July –
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford
, Viceroy of Ireland (died 1794)
31 July –
John Canton
, physicist (died 1772)
3 November –
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
, statesman (died 1792)
Deaths
edit
6 January –
Richard Hoare
, goldsmith and banker (born 1648)
1 February –
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury
, politician (born 1660)
17 February –
Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield
, heiress (born 1664)
18 February –
Peter Anthony Motteux
, dramatist and editor, probably murdered (born 1663 in France)
30 July –
William Penn
, Quaker and founder of the Pennsylvania colony (born 1644)
22 November –
Blackbeard
, pirate, killed in action (born c. 1680)
6 December –
Nicholas Rowe
, poet laureate and dramatist (born 1674)
See also
edit
1718 in Wales
References
edit
^
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 210–211.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
"BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on 9 September 2007
. Retrieved
3 September
2007
.
^
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0
.
^
Cates, William L. R.
(1863).
The Pocket Date Book
. Chapman and Hall.
^
a
b
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
Konstam, Angus (19 August 2008).
Piracy: the complete history
. Osprey Publishing. p. 336.
ISBN
978-1-84603-240-0
.
[
permanent dead link
]
^
Schaff, Philip
.
New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
. Vol. VII
. Retrieved
3 September
2007
.
^
"List of Charters Granted". The Privy Council Office
. Retrieved
25 October
2020
.