1723 in Great Britain

none April 2014 November 2020 thumb | right | One half of an indenture document dated 24 June 1723, the ninth year of the reign of King George I of Great Britain. 1723 Events from the year 1723 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George I Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/robert-walpole www.gov.uk 12 June 2023 en Events 8 March – the Chelsea Waterworks Company receives a Royal Charter.http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page44.asp Royal Charters, Privy Council website 24 August 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070824225331/http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/Page44.asp 24 August 2007 17 May – Christopher Layer is hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Jacobite Atterbury Plot May – Parliament passes the Black Act making poaching a capital offence.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml BBC History British History Timeline 3 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml 9 September 2007 June – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, receives a pardon for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion and is allowed to return to Britain, but not to sit in the House of Lords.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, is banished from the country during the year for his part in Jacobite plotting.D. W. Hayton Atterbury, Francis (1663–1732) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/871 22 November 2012 10.1093/ref:odnb/871 10 October – Treaty of Charlottenburg signed with Prussia.1723 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 Undated Parliament passes the Workhouse Test Act.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750 Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750 24 August 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164123/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750 17 August 2007 Births 23 February – Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791) 24 February – John Burgoyne, general (died 1792) 3 March – John Brown, merchant and ship-owner (died 1808) 5 March – Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1772) 23 April – Hannah Snell, soldier (died 1792) 16 June (5 June O.S.) – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (died 1790) 20 June Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 1816) Theophilus Lindsey, theologian (died 1808) 10 July – William Blackstone, jurist (died 1780) 16 July – Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (died 1792) 8 November – John Byron, admiral (died 1786) Deaths 25 February – Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (born 1632) 26 February – Thomas d'Urfey, writer (born 1653) 31 March – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661) 11 April – John Robinson, diplomat (born 1650) 27 May – Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, illegitimate son of Charles II (born 1672) 26 July – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, statesman (born 1660) 17 August – Joseph Bingham, scholar (born 1668) 10 October – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor (born c.1665) 19 October – Godfrey Kneller, painter (born 1646, Lübeck) 1 December – Susanna Centlivre, dramatist and actress (born 1669) See also 1723 in Wales References 1723 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1723 by country Category:1723 in Europe Category:1720s in Great Britain