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1750 in Great Britain
Summary
Events from the year
1750 in Great Britain
.
1750 in Great Britain:
Other years
1748
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1749
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1750
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1751
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1752
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1750 English cricket season
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
George II
Prime Minister
–
Henry Pelham
(
Whig
)
[1]
Events
edit
Westminster Bridge
17 January –
John Canton
reads a paper in the presence of the
Royal Society
of London on a method of making artificial
magnets
.
[2]
8 February – an earthquake is felt in
London
.
[3]
8 March – a second more powerful earthquake is felt in London.
[3]
20 March –
Samuel Johnson
begins publication of the periodical
The Rambler
.
[2]
11 April – Jack Slack (a butcher of Norwich) defeats
Jack Broughton
to become
bare-knuckle boxing
Champion of England
24 June –
Iron Act
, passed by
Parliament
, comes into effect, restricting manufacture of iron products in the American colonies.
[2]
5 October –
Treaty of Madrid
, a commercial treaty with
Spain
, is signed.
[4]
18 November –
Westminster Bridge
is officially opened for the general public to use,
[5]
the only fixed crossing of the
River Thames
between
London Bridge
and
Putney
.
Undated
edit
Establishment of the
Jockey Club
[2]
and the
Pytchley Hunt
.
Thomas Gainsborough
's painting
Mr and Mrs Andrews
.
[6]
Births
edit
24 January –
Helen Gloag
, Scottish-born slave Empress of
Morocco
(died 1790)
18 February –
David Bogue
, nonconformist leader (died 1825)
April –
Joanna Southcott
, religious fanatic (died 1814)
2 May –
John André
, British Army officer of the
American Revolutionary War
(died 1780)
6 June –
William Morgan
, actuary (died 1833)
13 June –
James Burney
, admiral (died 1821)
26 September –
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
, admiral (died 1810)
Deaths
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7 February –
Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset
, aristocrat (born 1684)
8 February –
Aaron Hill
, dramatist (born 1685)
29 March –
James Jurin
, physician and mathematician (born 1684)
7 April –
George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington
, general (born 1701)
28 July –
Conyers Middleton
, religious controversialist and classical scholar (born 1683)
8 August –
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
, aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron (born 1701)
3 October – 'Captain'
James MacLaine
(or Maclean),
gentleman
highwayman
(born 1724) (
hanged
at
Tyburn
)
13 December –
Philemon Ewer
, shipbuilder (born 1702)
See also
edit
1750 in Wales
References
edit
^
"History of Henry Pelham - GOV.UK".
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
19 June
2023
.
^
a
b
c
d
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 313–314.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
a
b
"Historical Earthquakes Listing". Archived from the original on 8 May 2008
. Retrieved
23 May
2008
.
^
Savelle, Max (1974).
Empires to Nations: Expansion in America, 1713-1824
. University of Minnesota Press. p. 131.
^
Weinreb, Ben
;
Hibbert, Christopher
(1995).
The London Encyclopaedia
. Macmillan. p. 976.
ISBN
0-333-57688-8
.
^
"Mr and Mrs Andrews: Key Facts".
The National Gallery
. Archived from the original on 3 December 2009
. Retrieved
8 January
2010
.