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1751 in Great Britain
Summary
Events from the year
1751
in
Great Britain
.
1751 in Great Britain:
Other years
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Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1751 English cricket season
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
George II
Prime Minister
–
Henry Pelham
(
Whig
)
[1]
Events
edit
25 March
– legally
New Year's Day
for the last time in
England and Wales
.
31 March
–
Frederick, Prince of Wales
dies at Leicester House, London from a lung injury and is succeeded by his son the future
George III of the United Kingdom
as heir apparent to the throne; three weeks later George is made Prince of Wales.
[2]
George's mother,
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
, becomes Dowager Princess of Wales.
April – the
Gin Act
requires government inspection of
distilleries
and restricts sale to licensed premises.
[3]
27 May
–
adoption of the Gregorian calendar
:
royal assent
is given to
An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use
(the "Calendar Act") passed by
Parliament
, introducing the
Gregorian Calendar
, correcting the eleven-day difference between
Old Style and New Style dates
and making
1 January
legally New Year's Day from
1752
in the British Empire.
[2]
[4]
It is largely promoted by
George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield
.
4 June
–
Dr John Wall
and partners establish a
porcelain
factory in
Worcester
, "
The Worcester Tonquin Manufactory
", the origin of
Royal Worcester
.
[5]
[6]
31 August
–
Robert Clive
takes the
Indian
town of
Arcot
from the
French
.
[2]
20 October
–
Charles, Duke of Bolton
, marries celebrated actress
Lavinia Fenton
, already the mother of his three children.
3 December
–
Battle of Arnee
:
Robert Clive
defeats a Franco-Indian force.
Undated
edit
A British settlement is founded in
Georgetown
in North America.
[2]
Newcastle Infirmary
founded in
Newcastle upon Tyne
.
A new
Lizard Lighthouse
is built in Cornwall.
William Hogarth
engraves
the prints
Gin Lane
,
Beer Street
and
The Four Stages of Cruelty
.
[3]
Publications
edit
15 February –
Thomas Gray
's anonymous
Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
.
[7]
Henry Fielding
's novel
Amelia
.
[2]
Eliza Haywood
's anonymous novel
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
.
[8]
David Hume
's book
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
.
[2]
Tobias Smollett
's anonymous picaresque novel
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
.
[2]
Births
edit
31 January
–
Priscilla Wakefield
(née Bell), Quaker writer and philanthropist (died 1832)
2 May
–
John André
, soldier (died 1780)
4 June
–
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
, Lord Chancellor (died 1838)
11 July
–
Caroline Matilda of Great Britain
, posthumously-born daughter of
Frederick, Prince of Wales
and later queen consort of Denmark (died 1775)
30 October
–
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, Irish-born dramatist and politician (died 1816)
14 November
–
Capel Lofft
, lawyer, writer and astronomer (died 1824 in France)
date unknown
John Bowles
, political writer and lawyer (died 1819)
Helen Craik
, Scottish novelist and poet (died 1825) (probable year)
Thomas Sheraton
, furniture designer (died 1806)
Deaths
edit
20 January
–
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
, politician (born
1665
)
29 March
–
Thomas Coram
, sea captain and philanthropist (born c.
1668
)
31 March
Frederick, Prince of Wales
(born
1707
)
Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford
(born
1701
)
9 June
–
John Machin
, mathematician and astronomer (b. c.1686)
22 August
–
Andrew Gordon
, Scottish-born Benedictine monk, physicist and inventor (born
1712
)
2 October
–
Thomas Mathews
, Welsh admiral (born
1676
)
26 October
–
Philip Doddridge
, nonconformist religious leader (born
1702
)
12 December
–
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
, statesman and philosopher (born
1678
)
17 December
–
Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet
, Governor of Virginia (born
1681
)
19 December
–
Louise of Great Britain
, English-born queen of
Frederick V of Denmark
(born
1724
)
See also
edit
1751 in Wales
References
edit
^
"History of Henry Pelham - GOV.UK".
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
19 June
2023
.
^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 314–315.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
a
b
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 220–221.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
Dagnall, H. (1991).
Give us back our eleven days
. Edgware: author. p. 19.
ISBN
0-9515497-2-3
.
^
"Dr. Wall and the first Worcester factory"
(PDF)
.
Worcester Porcelain Museum
. 2010-12-31. Archived from the original
(PDF)
on 2011-09-28.
^
Jervis, William Percival (1911).
A Pottery Primer
. New York: The O'Gorman Publishing Co. pp. 104–6.
^
Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
.
^
Leavis, Q. D.
(1965).
Fiction and the Reading Public
(rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.