1755 in Great Britain

none 1755 yes Events from the year 1755 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Whig)History of Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/thomas-pelham-holles-1st-duke-of-newcastle www.gov.uk 19 June 2023 en Events 20 February – General Edward Braddock lands in Virginia to take command of the British forces against the French in North America. 25 March – Landslip at Whitestone Cliff in the Hambleton Hills of North Yorkshire. June – Joseph Black's discovery of carbon dioxide and magnesium is communicated in a paper to the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh."Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime, and Some Other Alcaline Substances", published 1756. 24 June – Thomas Whitty originates Axminster Carpets.2005 Peter Long 1-904434-30-4 The Hidden Places of Devon 7th Aldermaston Travel Publishing 9 July – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat inflicted by French and Indian forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9580/ The Battle of the Monongahela World Digital Library 1755 2013-08-03 2013-08-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20130820233752/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9580/ dead 20 November – William Pitt the Elder is dismissed from the position of Paymaster of the Forces while Henry Bilson Legge resigns as Chancellor of the Exchequer and George Grenville as Treasurer of the Navy in protest over payments made to Russia to protect Hanover.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/317 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 317–318 2 December – the second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire. December – formation of 23rd Regiment of Foot, predecessor of the 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot and earliest constituent of The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding), or The King's Own Light Infantry Regiment regiments.org http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/051-757.htm 2006-06-04 2022-11-26 Wayback Machine 2007-01-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20070103061423/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/051-757.htm dead Unknown dates The Wolsey hosiery business is established in Leicester by Henry Wood; it will still be trading in the 21st century.Our History http://www.wolsey.com/Pages/Our-Story Wolsey 2012-06-06 https://archive.today/20130209115622/http://www.wolsey.com/Pages/Our-Story 2013-02-09 dead Building of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, Scotland, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church.http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=84461 Tynet, St Ninian's Church ScotlandsPlaces Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 2015-01-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222424/http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=84461 2016-03-03 dead Publications 15 April – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language; Johnson had begun the work in 1746.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800 Icons, a portrait of England 1750–1800 2007-08-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164134/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800 17 August 2007 Births 17 February – Dorothy Kilner, children's author (died 1836) 21 February – Anne Grant, poet and author (died 1838) 5 July – Sarah Siddons, Welsh-born actress (died 1831) 8 September – James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, nobleman and statesman (died 1836) 17 November – Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1828) 23 November – Thomas Lord, cricketer and founder of Lord's Cricket Ground (died 1832) Deaths 6 April – Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (born 1690) 13 July – Edward Braddock, British general (born c. 1695) 1 December – Maurice Greene, English composer (born 1696) See also 1755 in Wales References 1755 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1755 by country Category:1755 in Europe Category:1750s in Great Britain