1756 in Great Britain

none 1756 yes Events from the year 1756 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Whig) (until 16 November); William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (Whig) (starting 16 November)Bryant Christopher Parliament: The Biography 2014 Doubleday 978-0-85752-224-5 https://books.google.com/books?id=XzKtCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA379 en thumb|upright|William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire Events 16 January – Treaty of Westminster signed between Britain and Prussia guaranteeing the neutrality of Hanover, the German province controlled by King George II.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 318 12 April – Siege of Fort St Philip begins when the French under Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu, land near Port Mahón on Menorca and besiege the British garrison here in a prelude to the Seven Years' War. 17 May – Seven Years' War formally begins when Britain declares war on France. 20 May – Seven Years' War: Battle of Minorca: The British fleet under John Byng is defeated by the French under Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière. 20 June – a garrison of the British Army in India is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. 25 June – foundation of The Marine Society in London, the world's oldest seafarers' charity.http://www.ms-sc.org/Corporate-Information/About-Us/History/The-Marine-Society History of the Marine Society 2007-09-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20070927234459/http://www.ms-sc.org/Corporate-Information/About-Us/History/The-Marine-Society 2007-09-27 dead 29 June – Seven Years' War: Siege of Fort St Philip at Port Mahón ends when the British garrison in Menorca surrenders to the French under the Duke of Richelieu after two months' siege. 6 October – hurricane hits Britain causing large losses of corn and other crops.462 The Gentleman's Magazine Urban, Sylvanus D. Henry & R. Cave 1756 16 November – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, resigns as Prime Minister after British failure in the Battle of Minorca. He is succeeded by the Pitt–Devonshire ministry formed by William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, and William Pitt.1756 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 4 December – Pitt becomes Secretary of State for the Southern Department. Undated – completion of William Edwards' Old Bridge, Pontypridd. With a 140 ft m on span it becomes (by 10 ft) the longest single-span bridge in Great Britain, remaining so for 40 years.Ruddock Ted Arch Bridges and their Builders 1735–1835 https://books.google.com/books?id=amQ9AAAAIAAJ&q=The+Theory+of+Arches+and+Pontypridd'&pg=PA46 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-09021-6 2008 The Theory of Arches and Pontypridd 2009-01-19A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500 to 1830 A. W. Skempton Mike Chrimes https://books.google.com/books?id=jeOMfpYMOtYC&q=%22cylinderical+void+bridge%22&pg=PA210 Thomas Telford 2002 0-7277-2939-X 217–18 Publications Edmund Burke's (anonymous) A Vindication of Natural Society. Births Unknown date – Peter William Baker, politician (died 1815) 3 March – William Godwin, writer (died 1836) 4 March – Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (died 1823)Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-a-z/raeburn-henry National Records of Scotland 24 June 2022 English 31 May 2013 7 February 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230207124113/https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-a-z/raeburn-henry dead April – William Gifford, satirist, critic, editor, poet, and controversialist (died 1826) 13 June – Edmund Lodge, writer (died 1839) 21 September – John Loudon McAdam, highway engineer (died 1836) 5 October – Samuel Oldknow, cotton manufacturer (died 1828) 7 October – Jemmy Wood, banker and miser (died 1836) 13 November – Edward Rushton, abolitionist and pioneer of education for the blind (died 1814) 18 November – Thomas Burgess, bishop, author and philosopher (died 1837) 22 November – Gilbert Wakefield, scholar (died 1801) Deaths 25 February – Eliza Haywood, actress and writer (born 1693) 24 July – George Vertue, engraver and antiquary (born 1684) 31 August – John Dandridge, distinguished colonel, planter (born 1700) 28 October – Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (born 1709) 8 December – William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, statesman and diplomat (born c. 1690) See also 1756 in Wales References 1756 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1756 by country Category:1756 in Europe Category:1750s in Great Britain