1761 in Great Britain

none 1761 yes Events from the year 1761 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George III 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 thumb|Princess Charlotte Arriving at Harwich by Dominic Serres 16 January – in India, general Sir Eyre Coote captures Pondicherry from the French.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/320 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 320–321 8 February – an earthquake in London breaks chimneys in Limehouse and Poplar. 8 March – a second earthquake occurs in North London, Hampstead and Highgate. 9 March – Hexham Riot ("Bloody Monday"): a crowd protesting at enlistment to the militia in Hexham (Northumberland) is fired on by members of the North Yorkshire Militia with around 45 killed and many more wounded.D. W. Smith The Hexham Riot http://www.ndfhs.org/Articles/HexhamRiot.html Northumberland and Durham Family History Society Journal 5 2 January 1980 25 March–5 May – a general election is held. The Whig party retains its majority. 9 May – The Exhibition of 1761, the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain opens at Spring Gardens in LondonHargreaves, Matthew. Candidates for Fame: The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005. p.174 15–16 July – Seven Years' War: a combined Prussian-Hanoverian-British force led by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats a large French army at the Battle of Villinghausen. 17 July – James Brindley completes the Bridgewater Canal from Worsley to Manchester. 15 August – Seven Years' War: France and Spain sign the Pacte de Famille forming an alliance against Britain. September – Secretary of State for the Southern Department William Pitt the Elder fails to garner support to declare war on Spain. 8 September – King George III marries Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (who he has met for the first time earlier in the day) at St James's Palace.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 222–224 0-7126-5616-2 14 October – Great Malvern Tornado.Historical Chronicle, Oct. 1761 Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle October 1761 31 477 https://books.google.com/books?id=SqA3AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA477 173346685 22 September – coronation of King George IIIPenguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 and Queen Charlotte at Westminster Abbey. 5 October – Pitt resigns as Secretary of State for the Southern Department. The Tory The Earl of Bute forms a new administration. Undated Industrial Revolution: Establishment of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory near Birmingham to serve the "Birmingham toy industry", considered as the first factory for the production of metal goods in Britain.W. K. V. Gale Boulton, Watt and the Soho Undertakings City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 1952 Buckingham Palace, London, sold to George III; remodelling as a house for Queen Charlotte will begin the following year.Harris John de Bellaigue Geoffrey Millar Oliver 1968 Buckingham Palace London Nelson 0-17-141011-4 24 First church of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion opened, in Brighton.North Street – The Countess of Huntingdon's Church Jennifer Drury http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__8351_path__0p115p210p711p.aspx Brighton and Hove 2012-08-24 2016-07-26 The village of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire is demolished and rebuilt on a new site by Simon, Earl Harcourt to improve the landscaping of Nuneham House.Lobel Mary D. Mary Lobel Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5: Bullingdon Hundred 1957 Oxford University Press 234–249 The Halifax Treaties are concluded between the various bands of the Miꞌkmaq, other First Nations people and the British in Halifax, Nova Scotia, notably in the Burying the Hatchet ceremony on 25 June. Publications James Macpherson's supposed translation Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language.Magnus Magnusson Magnus Magnusson Fakers, Forgers & Phoneys Edinburgh Mainstream 2007 2006 978-1-84596-210-4 334 Frances Sheridan's novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph.Q. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public rev. London Chatto & Windus 1965 Births 17 January – James Hall, geologist (died 1832) 13 March – Henry Shrapnel, British Army officer and inventor (died 1842) 7 June – John Rennie the Elder, civil engineer (died 1821) 17 August – William Carey, missionary (died 1834 in India) 27 October – Matthew Baillie, physician and pathologist (died 1823) 13 November – John Moore, general (died 1809) 30 November – Smithson Tennant, chemist (died 1815) Deaths 4 January – Stephen Hales, physiologist, chemist, and inventor (born 1677) 10 January – Edward Boscawen, admiral (born 1711) 9 April – William Law, minister (born 1686) 15 April – Archibald Campbell, Duke of Argyll, politician (born 1682) 17 April Thomas Bayes, mathematician (born c.1702) Benjamin Hoadly, theologian, Bishop (born 1676) 14 May – Thomas Simpson, mathematician (born 1710) 4 July – Samuel Richardson, writer (born 1689) 30 November – John Dollond, optician (born 1706) 23 December – Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Jacobite spy (born c.1725) See also 1761 in Wales References 1761 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1761 by country Category:1761 in Europe Category:1760s in Great Britain