1709 in Great Britain

none November 2018 November 2020 1709 Events from the year 1709 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – Anne Events January to March – unusually cold weather (the Great Frost of 1709) brings floating ice into the North Sea.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 207–208 0-7126-5616-2 10 January – Abraham Darby I successfully produces cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdale blast furnace in Shropshire.Mott R. A. The earliest use of coke for ironmaking The Gas World, coking section supplement 145 7–18 5 January 1957Arthur Raistrick Dynasty of Ironfounders: the Darbys and Coalbrookdale London Longmans, Green 1953 34Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 292 1 or 2 February – during his first voyage, Captain Woodes Rogers on the Duke encounters marooned privateer Alexander Selkirk and rescues him after four years living on one of the Juan Fernández Islands, inspiring Defoe's book Robinson Crusoe.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006Ober Frederick A. Our West Indian Neighbors: the Islands of the Caribbean Sea New York James Pott & Company 1912 11 After sacking Guayaquil, he and Selkirk will visit the Galapagos Islands.Jackson Michael H. Galapagos: a Natural History https://archive.org/details/galapagos00mich registration University of Calgary Press 1993 1-895176-07-7 5 February – dramatist John Dennis devises the thundersheet as a new method of producing theatrical thunder for his tragedy Appius and Virginia at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.Nigel Rees Rees Nigel Why Do We Say ...? 1987 0-7137-1944-3 12 April – first edition of The Tatler magazine published. May – first influx of poor refugee families of German Palatines from the Rhenish Palatinate, mostly Protestants en route to the New World colonies.Gardiner, Juliet Wenborn, Neil The History Today Companion to British History London Collins & Brown 1995 1-85585-178-4 577 https://archive.org/details/historytodaycomp0000unse/page/577 June – The Worcester Post-Man is first published in Worcester; as Berrow's Worcester Journal it will continue to be published as a newspaper more than 300 years later.http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/bj/intro/ Berrow's Worcester Journal - History of the newspaper Worcester News Newsquest 2013-10-25 9 July – Christopher Slaughterford of London is executed in Guildford for the murder of Jane Young, his fiancée. He is the first person in modern England executed for murder based exclusively on circumstantial evidence, and he maintains his innocence to the last. 30 July – War of the Spanish Succession: Capture of Tournai by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy. 31 August (11 September NS) – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Malplaquet – troops of the Dutch Republic, Habsburg monarchy, Great Britain and the Kingdom of Prussia led by the Duke of Marlborough drive the French from the field but suffer twice as many casualties. The song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is based on the French song "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre" composed following this battle. 9 October – War of the Spanish Succession: British army captures Mons. 11 November – Henry Sacheverell preaches an incendiary sermon The Perils of False Brethren at St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London which leads to his impeachment by Parliament. 25 December – ten ships leave for the New York Colony from London carrying over 4,000 people. Undated Enactment of Britain's first copyright law, the Statute of Anne, coming into effect on 10 April 1710. The earliest known cricket match involving county teams played is between Kent and Surrey.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750 Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750 2007-08-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164123/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750 17 August 2007 Construction of Marlborough House begins in London. The second Eddystone Lighthouse, erected by John Rudyerd, is completed.Fred Majdalany The Red Rocks of Eddystone London Longmans 1959 86 Publication of The Works of Mr William Shakespear edited by dramatist Nicholas Rowe, the first modern edition of Shakespeare's plays, including scene divisions, dramatis personæ and a prefatory account of Shakespeare's life, the first substantial biography of him. Publication of Mrs. Delarivier Manley's political satire The New Atalantis. Publication of An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-day of St. Gregory by Ælfric of Eynsham, translated from Old English by Elizabeth Elstob. Births 17 January – George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, politician (died 1773) 16 February – Charles Avison, composer (died 1770) 24 July – James Harris, politician and grammarian (died 1780) 18 September – Samuel Johnson, English writer, critic and lexicographer (died 1784) 24 September (bapt.) – John Cleland, English novelist (died 1789) 2 November – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Hanoverian-born princess consort and regent of the Netherlands (died 1759) Deaths 24 January – George Rooke, English admiral (born 1650) 15 February – John Philips, English poet (born 1676) 8 March – William Cowper, surgeon and anatomist (born 1666) 9 March – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat (born c. 1638) 30 June – Edward Lhuyd, scientist (born 1660) 17 July – Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (born 1646) 9 October – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (born 1640) 23 November – William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, favourite of William III (born 1649, Netherlands) See also 1709 in Wales References 1709 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1709 by country Category:1709 in Europe Category:1700s in Great Britain