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1767 in Great Britain
Summary
Events from the year
1767
in
Great Britain
.
1767 in Great Britain:
Other years
1765
|
1766
|
1767
|
1768
|
1769
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1767 English cricket season
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
George III
Prime Minister
–
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
(
Whig
)
[1]
Events
edit
9 June – the
Townshend Acts
are passed by
Parliament
, placing a
tax
on common products, such as
lead
,
paper
,
paint
,
glass
, and
tea
.
[2]
17 June –
Cornish
Royal Navy
Captain
Samuel Wallis
becomes the first European to visit the island of
Tahiti
in the
Pacific Ocean
, during
HMS
Dolphin
's
second circumnavigation
.
[3]
3 July –
Pitcairn Island
in the Pacific Ocean is sighted from HMS
Swallow
(1766) by 15-year-old
Midshipman
Robert Pitcairn on a Royal Navy expeditionary voyage commanded by
Philip Carteret
, the first definite European sighting.
Undated
edit
Josiah Spode
establishes the
Spode
pottery
manufactory at
Stoke-on-Trent
.
Publications
edit
The final volume of
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by
Laurence Sterne
.
[2]
The History and Present State of Electricity
by
Joseph Priestley
.
[2]
An Essay on the History of Civil Society
by
Adam Ferguson
.
The Farmer's Letters to the People of England, containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman ...
by
Arthur Young
.
First annual volume of
The Nautical Almanac
and Astronomical Ephemeris
, produced by
Astronomer Royal
Nevil Maskelyne
at the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
, giving navigators the means to find
longitude
at sea using tables of
lunar distance
.
[4]
Births
edit
January –
William Shearman
, physician and medical writer (died
1861
)
1 January –
Maria Edgeworth
, novelist (died
1849
)
6 March –
Davies Gilbert
, engineer, author, and politician (died
1839
)
22 March –
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
, Member of Parliament (died
1845
)
24 April –
Dorothy Ripley
, missionary and writer (died
1832
)
20 August –
Lord William Russell
, Member of Parliament (died
1840
)
3 October –
Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton
, politician (died
1852
)
2 November –
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
, member of the Royal Family (died
1820
)
2 December –
Lord Charles Somerset
, governor of the
Cape Colony
(died
1831
)
unknown dates
George Barret, Jr.
, painter (died
1842
)
Bewick Bridge
, mathematician (died
1833
)
Lewis Lavenu
, musician, music seller and publisher (died
1818
)
Deaths
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1 April –
Laurence Oliphant
, Jacobite soldier (born
1691
)
10 July –
Alexander Monro
, physician (born
1697
)
26 July –
Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk
, mistress of
George II of Great Britain
(born
1689
)
4 September –
Charles Townshend
, politician (born
1725
)
17 September –
Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany
, member of the Royal Family (born
1739
)
26 October –
Harry Pulteney
, soldier and Member of Parliament (born
1686
)
1 December –
Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan
, Freemason (born
1710
)
22 December –
John Newbery
, publisher (born
1713
)
See also
edit
1767 in Wales
References
edit
^
"History of William Pitt 'The Elder', 1st Earl of Chatham - GOV.UK".
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
20 June
2023
.
^
a
b
c
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 324.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
Laneyrie-Dagen, Nadeije, ed. (1996).
Les Grands Explorateurs
. Larousse. p. 181.
ISBN
2-03-505305-6
.
^
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 224–225.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.