1724 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1724 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
- 20 February – première of Julius Caesar in Egypt, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London.[1]
- 6 April – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne becomes Secretary of State for the Southern Department; Henry Pelham becomes Secretary at War.[2]
- 16 November – Jack Sheppard is hanged in London. (His partner-in-crime, highwayman Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, was similarly executed five days earlier.)
Unknown dates
- Blenheim Palace construction is completed. It is presented as a gift to the Duke of Marlborough for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.
- Longman, the oldest publishing house in England, is founded.
Publications
- Daniel Defoe's A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain begins publication.[2]
- Jonathan Swift's Drapier's Letters begin publication.[2]
- Isaac Watts' textbook Logic.
Births
- 24 January – Frances Brooke, writer (died 1789)
- 28 February – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, field marshal (died 1807)
- 19 May – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, admiral and politician (died 1779)
- 3 June – John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (died 1773)
- 8 June – John Smeaton, civil engineer (died 1792)
- 25 August – George Stubbs, painter (died 1806)
- 3 September – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, soldier and Governor of Quebec (died 1808)
- 31 October – Christopher Anstey, writer (died 1805)
- 12 December – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, admiral (died 1816)
- 25 December – John Michell, scientist and geologist (died 1793)
Deaths
- 12 February – Elkanah Settle, writer (born 1648)
- 21 May – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, statesman (born 1661)
- 15 June – Henry Sacheverell, churchman and politician (born 1674)
- 29 October – William Wollaston, philosophical writer (born 1659)
- 11 November – Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), highwayman (executed) (born 1700)
- 16 November – Jack Sheppard, criminal (executed) (born 1702)
- 27 December – Thomas Guy, philanthropist (born 1644)
References
- ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.