1745 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1745 in Great Britain.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - King George II
- Prime Minister - Henry Pelham, Whig
[edit] Events
- 30 April–11 May - War of the Austrian Succession: British forces defeated at the Battle of Fontenoy.[1]
- 16 June - King George's War: British capture Cape Breton Island in North America from the French.[1]
- 26 June - The earliest known women's cricket match, at Gosden Common in Surrey.[2]
- 23 July - Jacobite rising: The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart lands on Eriskay in the Hebrides in Scotland.[1]
- 15 August–26 August - War of the Austrian Succession: By the Convention of Hanover, King George II makes peace overtures to Prussia and ends support for Austria.[1]
- 16 August - Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at Highbridge Skirmish.
- 19 August - Jacobite rising: Charles Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan.
- 11 September - Jacobite rising: Jacobites enter Edinburgh.[1]
- 17 September - Jacobite rising: in Edinburgh, Charles Stuart proclaims his father James Francis Edward Stuart as James VIII of Scotland.[1]
- 21 September - Jacobite rising: Government forces are defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans.[3]
- 28 September - The song later to become the British national anthem God Save the King first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London.[3]
- 13 November–15 November - Jacobite rising: Jacobites besiege and capture Carlisle.
- December - Jacobite rising: Jacobite garrison in Carlisle surrenders to Hannoverian forces under Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.
- 4 December - Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces reach Derby causing panic in London.[1]
- 6 December - Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces decide to retreat to Scotland.[1]
- 18 December - Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Clifton Moor Skirmish,[1] the last action between two military forces on English soil.
- 23 December - Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Battle of Inverurie.
[edit] Undated
- West towers of Westminster Abbey completed.[2]
[edit] Publications
- Henry Fielding edits the pro-government publication The True Patriot.[1]
[edit] Births
- 23 January - William Jessop, civil engineer (died 1814)
- 2 February - John Nichols, printer and author (died 1826)
- 14 February - Lady Sarah Lennox, courtier (died 1826)
- 20 February - Henry James Pye, poet (died 1813)
- 4 March - Charles Dibdin, composer (died 1814)
- 12 May - William Creech, Scottish bookseller and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (died 1815)
- 17 October - William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, judge and jurist (died 1836)
[edit] Deaths
- 18 March - Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1676)
- 10 October - Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer (b. 1667, Ireland)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 310–311. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 217–218. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
[edit] See also
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