1751 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1751 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George II
- Prime Minister - Henry Pelham (Whig)
Events
- 31 March - Frederick, Prince of Wales dies and is succeeded by his son the future George III of the United Kingdom as Duke of Cornwall. He's latter made Prince of Wales.[1]
- April - The Gin Act requires government inspection of distilleries and restricts sale to licensed premises.[2]
- 4 June - Dr John Wall and partners establish a porcelain factory in Worcester, "The Worcester Tonquin Manufactory", the origin of Royal Worcester.[3][4]
- 31 August - Robert Clive takes the Indian town of Arcot from the French.[1]
- 20 October - Charles, Duke of Bolton, marries celebrated actress Lavinia Fenton, already the mother of his three children.
- 3 December - Battle of Arnee: Robert Clive defeats a Franco-Indian force.
Undated
- A British settlement is founded in Georgetown in North America.[1]
- Parliament passes the Calendar Act introducing the Gregorian Calendar, correcting the eleven-day difference and making 1 January New Year's Day from 1752.[1]
- Newcastle Infirmary founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.
- William Hogarth engraves the prints Gin Lane, Beer Street and The Four Stages of Cruelty.[2]
Publications
- 15 February - Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard (anonymously).[5]
- Henry Fielding's novel Amelia.[1]
- Eliza Haywood's novel The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless.[6]
- David Hume's book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.[1]
- Tobias Smollett's novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.[1]
Births
- 2 May - John André, soldier (died 1780)
- 11 July - Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, posthumously-born daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and later queen consort of Denmark (died 1775)
- date unknown - Thomas Sheraton, furniture designer (died 1806)
Deaths
- 20 January - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, politician (born 1665)
- 29 March - Thomas Coram, sea captain and philanthropist (born c.1668)
- 31 March
- Frederick, Prince of Wales (born 1707)
- Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (born 1701)
- 2 October - Thomas Mathews, Welsh admiral (born 1676)
- 26 October - Philip Doddridge, religious leader (born 1702)
- 12 December - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, statesman and philosopher (born 1678)
- 17 December - Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet, Governor of Virginia (born 1681)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 314–315. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 220–221. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Dr. Wall and the first Worcester factory" (PDF). Worcester Porcelain Museum. 2010-12-31.
- ^ Jervis, William Percival (1911). A Pottery Primer. New York: The O'Gorman Publishing Co. pp. 104–6.
- ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.