1739 in Great Britain

none 1739 yes Events from the year 1739 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George II 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 January – Britain and Spain sign the Convention of Pardo.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 16 January – first performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Saul at the His Majesty's Theatre, London. February – George Whitefield first preaches in the open air, to miners at Kingswood, South Gloucestershire. April – John Wesley first preaches in the open air, at Whitefield's invitation. 4 April – first performance of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt at the King's Theatre, London. 12 May – John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol, the world's first Methodist meeting house.History of The New Room http://www.newroombristol.org.uk/History The New Room Bristol 2011-07-17 https://web.archive.org/web/20130817211537/http://newroombristol.org.uk/History 2013-08-17 dead 17 October – the Foundling Hospital in London, established by Thomas Coram, is granted its royal charter. 23 October – "War of Jenkins' Ear" (1739–1742) begins when Britain declares war on Spain. 20–22 November – War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of Porto Bello: British marine forces capture the Panamanian silver exporting town of Porto Bello from the Spanish. 25 December–February 1740 – the 'Great Frost': unusually harsh winter in southern England and Ireland.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 215–216 0-7126-5616-2 Publications January (dated 9 February) – The Scots Magazine first published.https://books.google.com/books?id=fOLM-Brl72kC&q=%22scots+magazine%22+January+1739&pg=PA614 A. W. Ward The Cambridge History of English Literature 9 2009 614 9781110343133 David Hume's anonymous A Treatise of Human Nature (issued late 1738 but dated this year). John Mottley's pseudonymous Joe Miller's Jests, or the Wits Vade-Mecum. John and Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Poems,Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 including the first publication of Charles's "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", anonymously as "Hymn for Christmas-Day", opening "Hark how all the welkin rings".The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study Watson J. R. Clarendon Press 1997 0198267622 Oxford 205–229 registration https://archive.org/details/englishhymncriti0000wats/page/205 Births 6 January – David Dale, philanthropist (died 1806) 26 January – George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (died 1817) 4 February – John Robison, physicist (died 1805) 25 March – Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany (died 1767) 16 May – Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, peer and politician (died 1779) 5 November – Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, peer (died 1819) 4 December – Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston, politician (died 1802) Deaths 7 April – Dick Turpin, highwayman (hanged) (born 1705) 19 April – Nicholas Saunderson, scientist and mathematician (born 1682) 10 August – William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven, nobleman. (born 1700) 4 September – George Lillo, playwright (born 1693) 21 October – William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester (born 1700) See also 1739 in Wales References 1739 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1739 by country Category:1739 in Europe Category:1730s in Great Britain