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1746 in Great Britain
Summary
Events from the year
1746 in
Great Britain
.
1746 in Great Britain:
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Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1746 English cricket season
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
George II
Prime Minister
–
Henry Pelham
(
Whig
)
[1]
Events
edit
8 January –
Jacobite rising
:
Charles Edward Stuart
("Bonnie Prince Charlie" or "The Young Pretender") occupies
Stirling
.
17 January – Government forces suffer a defeat to Jacobite forces at the
Battle of Falkirk
.
[2]
10 February –
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
forms the
Short-lived Ministry
following the resignation of
Henry Pelham
. It lasts a mere two days.
21 February – Jacobite rising:
Siege of Inverness
ends with government forces surrendering Fort George to the Jacobite army.
[3]
16 April –
Battle of Culloden
brings an end to the Jacobite rising.
[4]
Culloden is the last
pitched battle
fought on British soil.
George Frideric Handel
composes the oratorio
Judas Maccabaeus
to commemorate the
Duke of Cumberland
's victory.
[5]
3 May – "Battle of Loch nan Uamh": Royal Navy
sloops
attack French
privateers
which have landed money (and brandy) intended to aid the Jacobite cause in the
Sound of Arisaig
.
[6]
6 May –
William Pitt the Elder
appointed
Paymaster of the Forces
and
Henry Fox
appointed
Secretary at War
.
[5]
18 June –
Samuel Johnson
is contracted to write his
A Dictionary of the English Language
.
27 June – Charles Edward Stuart escapes to the
Isle of Skye
with the aid of
Flora MacDonald
.
[4]
30 July –
Francis Towneley
, with fellow members of the Jacobite
Manchester Regiment
convicted of treason, is
hanged, drawn and quartered
at
Kennington Common
in London; the heads of two of them become the last to be publicly displayed on
Temple Bar, London
.
1 August – wearing of the
kilt
is banned in
Scotland
by the
Dress Act
.
18 August – two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, the
Earl of Kilmarnock
and
Lord Balmerinoch
, are beheaded in the
Tower
(Lord Lovat executed 1747).
20 September – Charles Edward Stuart escapes to France with the aid of Flora MacDonald.
[5]
21 September – in India,
Madras
is captured by the French led by
Joseph François Dupleix
.
[5]
Undated
edit
William Cookworthy
discovers
kaolin
in
Cornwall
.
[7]
An act to enforce the execution of an act of this session of parliament, for granting to his Majesty several rates and duties upon houses, windows, or lights
includes a general provision confirming that all statutes naming England apply equally to
Wales
and
Berwick-upon-Tweed
.
[8]
Births
edit
3 June –
James Hook
, composer (died 1827)
28 September –
William Jones
, philologist (died 1794)
22 October –
James Northcote
, painter (died 1831)
Isaac Swainson
, botanist (died 1812)
Deaths
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4 February –
Robert Blair
, poet (born 1699)
14 June –
Colin Maclaurin
, mathematician (born 1698)
2 July –
Thomas Baker
, antiquarian (born 1656)
2 October –
Josiah Burchett
, Secretary of the Admiralty (born c. 1666)
6 December – Lady
Grizel Baillie
, poet (born 1665)
8 December –
Charles Radclyffe
, politician (born 1693)
See also
edit
1746 in Wales
References
edit
^
"History of Henry Pelham - GOV.UK".
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
19 June
2023
.
^
"The Battle of Falkirk 1746, BritishBattles.com". Archived from the original on 12 August 2007
. Retrieved
2007-07-27
.
^
Duffy, Christopher
(2007).
The '45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising
. London: Phoenix Books.
ISBN
9780753822623
.
^
a
b
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0
.
^
a
b
c
d
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 311.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
Love, Dane (2007). "Battle of Loch nan Uamh".
Jacobite Stories
. Neil Wilson Publishing.
ISBN
9781903238868
.
^
Penderill-Church, John (1972).
William Cookworthy 1705–1780: a study of the pioneer of true porcelain manufacture in England
. Truro: Bradford Barton.
^
Britain, Great (1746). "20 Geo. II, c. 42".
Statutes at Large
. Retrieved
2011-11-14
.