1719 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1719 in Great Britain.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - King George I
[edit] Events
- April - Bank rate set at 5%, at which it will remain for more than a century.[1]
- 28 April - A Peerage Bill, proposed by Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, to prevent the creation of peers in the House of Lords is defeated in the House of Commons.[2]
- 10 June - British Government forces defeat an alliance of Jacobite and Spanish forces at the Battle of Glen Shiel in Scotland.[2]
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- The South Sea Company proposes a scheme by which it would buy more than half the national debt of Britain in exchange for concessions.[2]
[edit] Publications
- 25 April - Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.[2]
- Eliza Haywood's novel Love in Excess, vol. I–II.[3]
[edit] Births
- 23 January - John Landen, mathematician (died 1790)
- 13 February - George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (died 1792)
- 4 March - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, governor of Madras (died 1777)
- 13 March - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, field marshal (died 1797)
- 30 May - Roger Newdigate, politician (died 1806)
- 11 August - George Augustus Selwyn, Member of Parliament (died 1791)
[edit] Deaths
- 18 January - Samuel Garth, physician and poet (born 1661)
- 17 June - Joseph Addison, politician and writer (born 1672)
- 7 September - John Harris (writer), writer (born c.1666)
- 27 September - George Smalridge, Bishop of Bristol (born 1662)
- 26 November - John Hudson, classical scholar (born 1662)
- 31 December - John Flamsteed, astronomer (born 1646)
[edit] References
- ^ "Changes in Bank Rate". Bank of England. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/rates/baserate.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ a b c d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 297. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
[edit] See also
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