1732 in Great Britain

none November 2020 1732 yes Events from the year 1732 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George II Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 7 June, until 26 September)E. B. Pryde Handbook of British Chronology https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA46 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-56350-5 46 Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/robert-walpole www.gov.uk 12 June 2023 en Events 14 February – first performance of Henry Fielding's comedy The Modern Husband, at the Royal Theatre on Drury Lane in London. 3 March – Captain Charles Gough rediscovers Gough Island in the South Atlantic.Wright Gabriel A new nautical directory for the East-India and China navigation 1804 W. Gilbert 680511332 394Heaney J. B. Holdgate M. W. 1957 The Gough Island Scientific Survey The Geographical Journal 123 1790718 20–31 10.2307/1790719 30 March – MPs John Birch and Denis Bond are expelled from the House of Commons after using their positions on the Commission for Forfeited Lands to make fraudulent sales. April–May – first performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Esther, the first oratorio in English, in London.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 registration https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will 9 June – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.Bennett William J. Cribb John T. E. The American Patriot's Almanac 2008 Thomas Nelson Inc 978-1-59555-267-9 208 https://books.google.com/books?id=yY0awjK1R3YC&pg=PA208 7 December – the original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (predecessor of the Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 Undated Act provides that any man after 24 June 1733 charged on oath with being the father of an illegitimate child should be imprisoned until he provides a financial bond to indemnify the parish from liability for it under the Poor Law.Bastardy or Illegitimacy in England Price Genealogy July 2017 2020-10-03 https://www.pricegen.com/bastardy-or-illegitimacy-in-england/ Secession Church formed in Scotland.The Pocket Date Book https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog London Chapman and Hall William L. R. Cates William Leist Readwin Cates 1863 Trinity House moors the world's first lightship at the Nore in the Thames Estuary.http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.64/chapterId/1506/Trinity-House.html Trinity House – Lightvessels PortCities London 2011-08-13 6 September 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170906180525/http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.64/chapterId/1506/Trinity-House.html dead The Portsmouth Grammar School is founded under the will of Dr. William Smith, a physician and former Mayor of Portsmouth, by Christ Church, Oxford. Births February – Charles Churchill, satirist and poet (died 1764) 19 February – Richard Cumberland, dramatist (died 1811) April – George Colman the Elder, dramatist and essayist (died 1794) 13 April – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (died 1792)History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/frederick-north www.gov.uk 1 July 2023 en 15 August – Maria Coventry, Countess of Coventry, society beauty (died 1760) 6 October – Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (died 1811) 6 December – Warren Hastings, colonial administrator (died 1818) 23 December – Richard Arkwright, inventor (died 1792) Deaths 12 January – John Horsley, archaeologist (born c. 1685) 22 January – Louis de Sabran, theologian (born 1652) 6 February – Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wealthy Scottish peeress (born 1651) 7 February – William Hiseland, soldier, reputed supercentenarian (born 1620) 22 February – Francis Atterbury, bishop and man of letters (born 1663) 20 May – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (born 1676) 30 May – John King, churchman (born 1652) 1 June – Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland (born 1700) 16 July – Woodes Rogers, privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (born c. 1679) 6 October – George Duckett, politician (born 1684) 26 November – Charles Sergison, politician (born 1655) 4 December – John Gay, poet and dramatist (born 1685) See also 1732 in Wales References 1732 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1732 by country Category:1732 in Europe Category:1730s in Great Britain