1765 in Great Britain

none November 2020 December 2012 1765 yes Events from the year 1765 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George III Prime Minister – George Grenville (Whig) (until 13 July); Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (Whig) (starting 13 July)Bryant Christopher Parliament: The Biography 2014 Doubleday 978-0-85752-224-5 https://books.google.com/books?id=XzKtCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA379 en thumb|upright|Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Events January–April – George III suffers a malady, perhaps a first manifestation of bipolar disorder.Andrew Roberts (historian) Andrew Roberts George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch London Allen Lane 2021 9780241413333 8 February – Nevil Maskelyne becomes Astronomer Royal.1765 The People'plu 7123456890 s Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 22 March – Parliament passes the Stamp Act which is the first direct tax levied on the American colonies.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 24 March – Parliament passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops.http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/quartering.htm The Quartering Act of 1765 ushistory.org 2007-08-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20070806070753/http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/related/quartering.htm 6 August 2007 7 May – Victory is launched at Chatham Dockyard; at the beginning of the 21st century it remains the oldest naval ship still in commission. May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 323 21 June – the Isle of Man is brought under British control, the Isle of Man Purchase Act (coming into force 10 May) confirming HM Treasury's purchase of the feudal rights of the Dukes of Atholl as Lord of Mann over the island and revesting them into the British Crown.Hartley Booth V. E. Sells Peter British extradition law and procedure: including extradition between the United Kingdom and foreign states, the Commonwealth and dependent countries and the Republic of Ireland Sijthoff & Noordhoff Alphen aan den Rijn 1980 5 978-90-286-0079-9 6890466 12 July – George Grenville is dismissed as Prime Minister by King George III.http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page168.asp PMs in history: George Grenville 10 Downing Street website 2007-08-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20070809014355/http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page168.asp 9 August 2007 13 July – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham succeeds Grenville as Prime Minister.http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page164.asp PMs in history: Marquess of Rockingham 10 Downing Street website 2007-08-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20070807205447/http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page164.asp 7 August 2007 7 August – armed mutiny at Maidstone County Gaol.Paul Hastings Ian Coulson Life in Kent Gaols before 1877 http://www.hereshistorykent.org.uk/displaytheme.cfm?pagetype=Themes&themeID=463&category=Life%20in%20Kent%20Gaols%20before%201877 Here's History Kent 2011-08-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20120226000654/http://www.hereshistorykent.org.uk/displaytheme.cfm?pagetype=Themes&themeID=463&category=Life%20in%20Kent%20Gaols%20before%201877 26 February 2012 dead 12 August – Robert Clive secures the rights for the East India Company to collect taxes in Bengal from Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II. 2 November – the decision of the King's Bench in Entick v Carrington establishes the civil liberties of individuals and limiting the scope of executive power.19 Howell's State Trials 1030. Undated Lord Mansfield decides the landmark case of Pillans v Van Mierop in English contract law in relation to the doctrine of consideration. Taylors & Lloyds Bank established in Birmingham.Maurice Baren How It All Began Up the High Street London Michael O'Mara Books 1996 1-85479-667-4 94 Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire completed. William Tryon appointed Governor of North Carolina. Publications William Blackstone's influential work Commentaries on the Laws of England begins publication. Thomas Percy's ballad collection Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, an anonymous children's story published by John Newbery.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800 Icons, a portrait of England 1750–1800 2007-08-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164134/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800 17 August 2007 Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle, a collection of nursery rhymes published by John Newbery (approximate date).A. H. Bullen's 1904 facsimile of Newbery's 1791 edition of Mother Goose's Melody (on-line) Births 2 January – Charles Hatchett, chemist (died 1847)Charles Hatchett British chemist Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Hatchett www.britannica.com 12 April 2022 en 13 January – Richard Westall, painter (died 1836) 26 April – Emma, Lady Hamilton, born Amy Lyon, mistress of Horatio Nelson (died 1815 in France) 15 June – Henry Thomas Colebrooke, orientalist (died 1837) 27 July – John Marshall, textile manufacturer (died 1845) 21 August – King William IV (died 1837) 24 October – James Mackintosh, Scottish-born journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and Whig politician (died 1832) 20 November – Thomas Fremantle, admiral and politician (died 1819) Approximate date – James Smithson, chemist, mineralogist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States, born in France (died 1829 in Italy) Deaths 3 March – William Stukeley, archaeologist (born 1687) 5 April – Edward Young, poet (born 1683) 10 October – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1688) 31 October – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, military leader (born 1721) 30 November – George Glas, merchant and adventurer (born 1725) 3 December – Lord John Philip Sackville, cricketer (born 1713) See also 1765 in Wales References 1765 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1765 by country Category:1765 in Europe Category:1760s in Great Britain