1711 in Great Britain

none 1711 Events from the year 1711 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – Anne Events 24 February – premiere of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 1 March – first edition of the magazine The Spectator published in London, edited by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 5 April (Easter Sunday) – the central tower of Elgin Cathedral in northeast Scotland collapses.David Ross Chronology of Scottish History Geddes & Grosset New Lanark 2002 1-85534-380-0 22 May – Company of Blanket Weavers of Witney in Oxfordshire incorporated by royal charter to regulate the trade.The Witney Blanket Weavers' Company http://www.witneyblanketstory.org.uk/wbp.asp?navigationPage=Blanket%20Weavers%20Company Witney Blanket Story 2022-07-05 23 May – Robert Harley made Earl of Oxford. 29 May – Harley made Lord High Treasurer. 7 August – capture of the galleon San Joaquin: Spanish galleon San Joaquin in a treasure fleet sailing from Cartagena de Indias (modern-day Colombia) to Spain surrenders after an engagement with five British ships. 11 August – the first race meeting is held at Ascot Racecourse, "Her Majesty's Plate", attended by Queen Anne.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 22 August – the Quebec Expedition, a British attempt to attack the city of Quebec as part of Queen Anne's War, fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in the Saint Lawrence River and 850 soldiers drown, one of the worst disasters in British history up to this date. 8 September – the South Sea Company receives a Royal Charter.http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page44.asp Royal Charters, Privy Council website 2007-08-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20070824225331/http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/Page44.asp 24 August 2007 dead 12 September – Siege of Bouchain in the War of the Spanish Succession concludes with the last major victory for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. 14 October – Woodes Rogers returns to England after a successful round-the-world privateering cruise against Spain, carrying loot worth £150,000. 5 November – the southwest spire of Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire is struck by lightning, resulting in a fire that spreads to the nave and tower, destroying roofs, bells, clock and organ. 7 December - The Earl of Nottingham successfully proposes an amendment in the House of Lords calling for "No Peace Without Spain". 15 December – Occasional Conformity Act, intending to bar nonconformists and Roman Catholics from public office.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 208–209 0-7126-5616-2 25 December – the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral in London to a design by Sir Christopher Wren is declared complete by Parliament;Campbell James W. P. 2007 Building St Paul's London Thames and Hudson 978-0-500-34244-2 161 Old St Paul's had been destroyed by the 1666 Great Fire of London. 31 December – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough is replaced by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde as the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. Undated Commission for Building Fifty New Churches set up under terms of the New Churches in London and Westminster Act 1710 (9 Ann. c. 17). John Shore invents the tuning fork. Blast furnace for the production of charcoal iron erected at Backbarrow in the north west of England; it will be in production until the 1960s. Publications Prose 1711 in literature Francis Atterbury, Representation of the State of Religion Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times Daniel Defoe The British Visions An Essay on the History of Parties An Essay on the South-Sea Trade The Present State of the Parties in Great Britain (attributed) The Secret History of the October Club John Dennis, Reflections Critical and Satyrical, Upon a Late Rhapsody call'd, An Essay upon Criticism (Dennis's counterattack on Alexander Pope) Poetry and Songs 1711 in poetry Sir Richard Blackmore, published anonymously, The Nature of ManCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm William King, An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism James Watson, editor, Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems, Edinburgh"Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)", article, The Burns Encyclopedia, online edition, retrieved July 1, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20100714164232/http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/RamsayAllan1686-1758.728.shtml 2010-07-14 2009-07-21. Births 7 May – David Hume, philosopher (died 1776) 19 August – Edward Boscawen, admiral (died 1761) 1 September – William Boyce, composer (died 1779) 22 September – Thomas Wright, astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist (died 1786) 26 September – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, politician (died 1779) 5 November – Catherine Raftor, later Kitty Clive, actress (died 1785) Deaths 19 March – Thomas Ken, bishop and hymn-writer (born 1637) 2 May – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, statesman (born 1641) 6 July – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, politician (born 1662) 25 August – Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, politician (born c. 1656) See also 1711 in Wales References 1711 Category:1711 by country Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1711 in Europe Category:1710s in Great Britain