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1712 in Great Britain
Great Britain-related events during the year of 1712
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Scotland
Events from the year
1712
in
Great Britain
.
Incumbents
Monarch
–
Anne
Events
1 January –
War of the Spanish Succession
:
Peace congress
opens at
Utrecht
.
2 January – In the British
House of Lords
, twelve new
Tory
peers known as
Harley's Dozen
take their seats.
17 January –
Robert Walpole
imprisoned in the
Tower of London
following charges of corruption.
[1]
3 March –
Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711
comes into effect, leading to incorporation of the
Scottish Episcopal Church
.
15 March –
HMS
Dragon
, a 38-gun
fourth rate
frigate
of the
Royal Navy
, is wrecked on
Les Casquets
rocks to the west of
Alderney
.
[2]
30 March –
Queen Anne
administers the
Royal touch
, a ritual with the intent to cure illness, for the last time; 300
scrofulous
people are touched, the last of whom is
Samuel Johnson
.
18 April –
Louisa Maria Stuart
, considered by
Jacobites
to be
Princess Royal
and heir to the throne of her brother
James
, dies of
smallpox
in French exile. Her brother also falls ill but recovers.
May – British Army in
Flanders
under the
Duke of Ormonde
receives "restraining orders" that prevents them taking part in any offensive against France due to ongoing peace talks.
8 July – The Royal Navy 50-gun ship
HMS
Advice
is launched at
Deptford Dockyard
.
24 July – War of the Spanish Succession: At the
Battle of Denain
, the French defeat a combined Dutch-Austrian force following the withdrawal of British troops.
[3]
1 August – The
Stamp Act of 1712
is passed, imposing a tax on publishers, particularly of newspapers.
23 August – The Royal Navy 60-gun ship
HMS
Rippon
is launched at Deptford Dockyard.
September – Composer
George Frideric Handel
re-locates to London.
[4]
3 October – In Scotland a warrant is issued for the arrest of outlaw
Rob Roy MacGregor
by
Sir James Stewart (Lord Advocate)
.
[5]
4 November –
Bandbox Plot
:
Jonathan Swift
foils an attempted murder of
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
.
[6]
12 November –
Hamilton–Mohun Duel
takes place in London. The
Duke of Hamilton
and
Lord Mohun
fight a duel in
Hyde Park
in which both are killed.
22 November – The first performance of
George Frideric Handel
's opera
Il pastor fido
takes place at
the Queen's Theatre
in the
Haymarket, London
.
Undated
The first known working
Newcomen steam engine
is built by
Thomas Newcomen
with
John Calley
to pump water out of mines in the
Black Country
, the first practical device to harness the power of
steam
to produce
mechanical work
.
[7]
John Arbuthnot
creates the character of "
John Bull
" to represent Britain.
[3]
Castle Howard
in
North Yorkshire
, designed by Sir
John Vanbrugh
, is completed.
Royal Hospital School
established for seafarers' orphans by charter at the site of
Greenwich Hospital, London
.
Building begins of
St. Paul's, Deptford
, a church designed by
Thomas Archer
.
[1]
Publications
Poetry and Songs
Sir
Richard Blackmore
,
Creation: a philosophical poem
John Dennis
,
Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakspear: with Some Letters of Criticism to the Spectator
[8]
Thomas Ellwood
,
Davideis: The Life of King David of Israel
[9]
Drama
The Successful Pyrate
by
Charles Johnson
.
Births
17 January –
John Stanley
, composer (died 1786)
19 February –
Arthur Devis
, portrait painter (died 1787)
8 March –
John Fothergill
, physician (died 1780)
22 March –
Edward Moore
, writer (died 1757)
[10]
14 October –
George Grenville
,
Prime Minister of Great Britain
(died 1770)
[11]
21 October – Sir
James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet
, economist (died 1780)
Richard Glover
, poet (died 1785)
Sarah Clayton
, industrialist (died 1779)
Deaths
2 February –
Martin Lister
, naturalist and physician (born 1639)
25 March –
Nehemiah Grew
, naturalist (born 1641)
1 July –
William King
, poet (born 1663)
12 July –
Richard Cromwell
, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (born 1626)
26 July –
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
, statesman (born 1631)
3 August –
Joshua Barnes
, scholar (born 1654)
18 August –
Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers
, soldier (born c. 1660)
29 August –
Gregory King
, statistician (born 1648)
15 November –
Hamilton–Mohun Duel
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton
, courtier and politician (born 1658 in Scotland)
Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun of Okehampton
, politician and rake (born c. 1675)
See also
1712 in Wales
References
^
a
b
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
293–294
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
"1712 Wreck of HMS Dragon"
.
Alderney Local History
.
^
a
b
Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1712".
The People's Chronology
. Thomson Gale.
^
Richard Wigmore, "Handel conquers London".
Gramophone
, 10 August 2012. Accessed 22 February 2013
^
"Notable Dates in History"
.
The Flag in the Wind
.
The Scots Independent
. Archived from
the original
on 26 January 2016
. Retrieved
1 March
2016
.
^
"The Bandbox Plot"
. Archived from
the original
on 2007-09-28
. Retrieved
2007-05-20
.
^
Rolt, L. T. C.
; Allen, J. S. (1977). "The First Newcomen Engines c1710–15".
The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen
(new ed.). Hartington: Moorland. pp. 44–57.
ISBN
0-903485-42-7
.
^
Paul, Harry Gilbert,
John Dennis: His Life and Criticism
, p 64, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 26, 2019
^
Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
.
^
Restoration and 18th-Century Drama
. Macmillan International Higher Education. November 1980. p. 109.
ISBN
978-1-349-16422-6
.
^
"History of George Grenville - GOV.UK"
.
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
19 June
2023
.
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