1750 in Great Britain

none November 2020 May 2013 1750 yes Events from the year 1750 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Henry Pelham (Whig)History of Henry Pelham - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/henry-pelham www.gov.uk 19 June 2023 en Events thumb|Westminster Bridge 17 January – John Canton reads a paper in the presence of the Royal Society of London on a method of making artificial magnets. 8 February – an earthquake is felt in London.http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/historical/historical_listing.htm Historical Earthquakes Listing 2008-05-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20080508040500/http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/historical/historical_listing.htm 8 May 2008 8 March – a second more powerful earthquake is felt in London. 20 March – Samuel Johnson begins publication of the periodical The Rambler. 11 April – Jack Slack (a butcher of Norwich) defeats Jack Broughton to become bare-knuckle boxing Champion of England 24 June – Iron Act, passed by Parliament, comes into effect, restricting manufacture of iron products in the American colonies.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 313–314 5 October – Treaty of Madrid, a commercial treaty with Spain, is signed.Max Savelle Empires to Nations: Expansion in America, 1713-1824 University of Minnesota Press 1974 131 18 November – Westminster Bridge is officially opened for the general public to use,The London Encyclopaedia Ben Weinreb Ben Weinreb Hibbert, Christopher Christopher Hibbert Macmillan 1995 0-333-57688-8 976 the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Putney. Undated Establishment of the Jockey Club and the Pytchley Hunt. Thomas Gainsborough's painting Mr and Mrs Andrews.http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/thomas-gainsborough-mr-and-mrs-andrews/*/key-facts Mr and Mrs Andrews: Key Facts The National Gallery 8 January 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20091203133809/http://nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/thomas-gainsborough-mr-and-mrs-andrews/%2A/key-facts 3 December 2009 Births 24 January – Helen Gloag, Scottish-born slave Empress of Morocco (died 1790) 18 February – David Bogue, nonconformist leader (died 1825) April – Joanna Southcott, religious fanatic (died 1814) 2 May – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (died 1780) 6 June – William Morgan, actuary (died 1833) 13 June – James Burney, admiral (died 1821) 26 September – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, admiral (died 1810) Deaths 7 February – Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, aristocrat (born 1684) 8 February – Aaron Hill, dramatist (born 1685) 29 March – James Jurin, physician and mathematician (born 1684) 7 April – George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington, general (born 1701) 28 July – Conyers Middleton, religious controversialist and classical scholar (born 1683) 8 August – Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron (born 1701) 3 October – 'Captain' James MacLaine (or Maclean), gentleman highwayman (born 1724) (hanged at Tyburn) 13 December – Philemon Ewer, shipbuilder (born 1702) See also 1750 in Wales References 1750 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1750 by country Category:1750 in Europe Category:1750s in Great Britain