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1740 in Great Britain
.
Incumbents
Monarch
–
George II
Prime Minister
–
Robert Walpole
(
Whig
)
[
1
]
Events
Thomas Coram, painted by
William Hogarth
, 1740
January–February – the "Great Frost" continues; this will be the coldest known year (and coldest twelve-month period) by average annual temperature across central England for which reliable records are known.
[
2
]
8 January –
Dutch East India Company
ship
Rooswijk
is wrecked on the shoals of
Goodwin Sands
with the loss of all 237 crew as it begins its second voyage to the Indies.
[
3
]
8 April –
War of the Austrian Succession
: Three
Royal Navy
ships capture the Spanish ship of the line
Princesa
off
Cape Finisterre
and takes her into British service as
HMS
Princess
.
1 June –
Plantation Act
or Naturalization Act of the Parliament of Great Britain comes into effect providing for Protestant
alien
immigrants (including
Huguenots
, and also
Jews
) residing in the
American colonies
for 7 years to receive British
nationality
.
26 June –
War of Jenkins' Ear
:
Siege of Fort Mose
– A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries storms Britain's strategically crucial position of
Fort Mose
,
Florida
.
1 August – "
Rule, Britannia!
" is first performed in an open-air performance at
Cliveden
, the country home of
Frederick, Prince of Wales
[
4
]
as part of the masque
Alfred
with music by
Thomas Arne
to a lyric by Scottish-born poet
James Thomson
; the original tenor soloist is probably Thomas Salway.
8 September –
Hertford College, Oxford
, is founded for the first time.
[
5
]
21 August – First issue of
grog
in the
Royal Navy
.
[
6
]
18 September –
George Anson
sets out on
his voyage around the world
from
Spithead
.
[
4
]
6 November –
Samuel Richardson
's
epistolary novel
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
is published anonymously in London.
Unknown dates
Henry Hindley
invents a device to cut the teeth of clock wheels.
[
4
]
William Hogarth
paints a portrait of philanthropist Captain
Thomas Coram
(pictured)
.
[
4
]
A subsequently-discredited account by
William Stukeley
asserts that
Stonehenge
was built by
druids
.
[
7
]
Thomas Witherby
establishes his
stationery
business in London, specializing in printing and publishing for the
marine insurance
industry. By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, as the
Witherby Publishing Group
, it will claim to be the oldest independent publisher in the English speaking world.
James Whatman
establishes his
paper mill
in
Maidstone
, specializing in quality paper. It will remain in production until
2014
.
[
8
]
Births
10 January –
Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain
, member of the Royal Family (died
1759
)
27 June –
James Woodforde
, clergyman and diarist (died
1803
)
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
)
date unknown
Margaret Bingham
, Countess of Lucan, portrait painter and writer (died
1814
)
Thomas White
, cricketer (died
1831
)
Christopher Wyvill
, cleric, landowner and political reformer (died
1822
)
William Yalden
, cricketer (died
1824
)
Deaths
29 January –
Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough
, military officer and politician, suicide (born
1686
)
19 February –
Hester Pinney
, businesswoman (born
1658
)
23 April –
Thomas Tickell
, writer (born
1685
)
6 June –
Alexander Spotswood
, governor of Virginia Colony (born 1676)
17 June –
Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet
, politician (born
1687
)
20 December –
Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
, military officer and statesman (born
1675
)
23 December –
Daniel Waterland
, English theologian (born
1683
)
See also
1740 in Wales
References
^
"History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK"
.
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
12 June
2023
.
^
"Monthly Mean Central England Temperature"
. Retrieved
3 December
2014
.
^
van Duivenvoorde, Wendy (2015).
Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding: The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-Century VOC Ships
. Texas A&M University Press. p. 145.
^
a
b
c
d
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
308
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
Hamilton, Sidney Graves (1903).
Hertford College
. University of Oxford college histories. London: Robinson.
^
Pack, A. J. (1982).
Nelson's Blood: the story of naval rum
. Havant: K. Mason.
ISBN
0-85937-279-0
.
^
"Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750"
. Archived from
the original
on 17 August 2007
. Retrieved
24 August
2007
.
^
Chalmers, Mark (September 2016). "Whatman – Springfield Paper Mill, Maidstone".
Archive
(91). Witney: Lightmoor Press: 52–65.
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