1740 in Great Britain
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1740 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1740 in Great Britain.
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Incumbents
- Monarch - King George II
- Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig
Events
- 1 August - The song Rule, Britannia! is first performed at Cliveden, the country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales.[1]
- 21 August - First issue of grog in the Royal Navy.[2]
- 18 September - George Anson sets out on a voyage around the world.[1]
- November - Hertford College, Oxford, is founded for the first time.[3]
Unknown dates
- By an act of the Parliament, alien immigrants (including Huguenots and Jews) in the colonies) receive British nationality.
- Henry Hindley invents a device to cut the teeth of clock wheels.[1]
- William Hogarth paints a portrait of Captain Thomas Coram (pictured).[1]
- A now-discredited account by William Stukeley asserts that Stonehenge was built by druids.[4]
Births
- 17 September - John Hamilton Mortimer, painter (died 1779)
- 29 October - James Boswell, author (died 1795)
- 24 November - John Bacon, sculptor (died 1799)
- c. December - Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang (died 1794)
Deaths
- 23 April - Thomas Tickell, writer (born 1685)
- 6 June - Alexander Spotswood, governor of Virginia Colony (born 1676)
- 17 June - Sir William Wyndham, politician (born 1687)
- 20 December - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, military officer and statesman (born 1675)
References
- ^ a b c d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 308. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Pack, A. J. (1982). Nelson's Blood: the story of naval rum. Havant: K. Mason. ISBN 0-85937-279-0.
- ^ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). The Encyclopædia of Oxford. London: Macmillan. p. 182. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070817164123/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
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