1761 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1761 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George III
- Prime Minister – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Whig)
- Parliament – 11th (until 20 March), 12th (starting 19 May)
Events
- 16 January – in India, general Sir Eyre Coote captures Pondicherry from the French.[1]
- 8 February – an earthquake in London breaks chimneys in Limehouse and Poplar.
- 8 March – a second earthquake occurs in North London, Hampstead and Highgate.
- 9 March – Hexham Riot ("Bloody Monday"): a crowd protesting at enlistment to the militia in Hexham (Northumberland) is fired on by members of the North Yorkshire Militia with around 45 killed and many more wounded.[2]
- 25 March–5 May – a general election is held. The Whig party retains its majority.
- 15 July–16 July – Seven Years' War: a combined Prussian-Hanoverian-British force led by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats a large French army at the Battle of Villinghausen.
- 17 July – James Brindley completes the Bridgewater Canal from Worsley to Manchester.[3]
- 15 August – Seven Years' War: France and Spain sign the Pacte de Famille forming an alliance against Britain.[1]
- September – Secretary of State for the Southern Department William Pitt the Elder fails to garner support to declare war on Spain.[1]
- 8 September – King George III marries Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz at St James's Palace.[3]
- 14 October – Great Malvern Tornado.[4]
- 22 September – coronation of King George III.[5]
- 5 October – Pitt resigns as Secretary of State for the Southern Department.[3] The Tory The Earl of Bute forms a new administration.[1]
Undated
- Industrial Revolution: Establishment of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory near Birmingham to serve the "Birmingham toy industry", considered as the first factory for the production of metal goods in Britain.[6]
- Buckingham Palace, London, sold to George III; remodelling as a house for Queen Charlotte will begin the following year.[7]
- First church of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion opened, in Brighton.[8]
- The village of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire is demolished and rebuilt on a new site by Simon, Earl Harcourt to improve the landscaping of Nuneham House.[9]
Publications
- Frances Sheridan's novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph.[10]
Births
- 17 January – James Hall, geologist (died 1832)
- 13 March – Henry Shrapnel, British Army officer and inventor (died 1842)
- 7 June – John Rennie the Elder, civil engineer (died 1821)
- 27 October – Matthew Baillie, physician and pathologist (died 1823)
- 13 November – John Moore, general (died 1809)
- 30 November – Smithson Tennant, chemist (died 1815)
Deaths
- 4 January – Stephen Hales, physiologist, chemist, and inventor (born 1677)
- 10 January – Edward Boscawen, admiral (born 1711)
- 9 April – William Law, minister (born 1686)
- 15 April – Archibald Campbell, Duke of Argyll, politician (born 1682)
- 17 April
- Thomas Bayes, mathematician (born c.1702)
- Benjamin Hoadly, theologian, Bishop (born 1676)
- 14 May – Thomas Simpson, mathematician (born 1710)
- 4 July – Samuel Richardson, writer (born 1689)
- 30 November – John Dollond, optician (born 1706)
- 23 December – Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Jacobite spy (born c.1725)
References
- ^ a b c d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 320–321. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Smith, D. W. (January 1980). "The Hexham Riot". Northumberland and Durham Family History Society Journal. 5 (2).
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 222–224. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Historical Chronicle, Oct. 1761". Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. 31: 477. October 1761. OCLC 173346685.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Gale, W. K. V. (1952). Boulton, Watt and the Soho Undertakings. City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
- ^ Harris, John; de Bellaigue, Geoffrey; Millar, Oliver (1968). Buckingham Palace. London: Nelson. p. 24. ISBN 0-17-141011-4.
- ^ Drury, Jennifer (2012-08-24). "North Street – The Countess of Huntingdon's Church". Brighton and Hove. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
- ^ Lobel, Mary D., ed. (1957). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5: Bullingdon Hundred. Oxford University Press. pp. 234–249.
- ^ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.