1731 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1731 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
- 16 March – Treaty of Vienna signed between the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Spain.[1]
- April – trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off by Spanish coast guards in Cuba, casus belli for the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.[2]
- 4 June - Great fire destroys much of the centre of Blandford Forum, Dorset.[3]
- 5 June – Tiverton fire of 1731, a great fire in Tiverton, Devon.[4]
- 23 October – fire at Ashburnham House in London damages the nationally owned Cotton library, housed there at this time.
Undated
- Legal proceedings in the courts to be conducted in the English language.[5]
- William Hogarth produces his A Harlot's Progress series of paintings.[2]
Publications
- 1 January – first edition of The Gentleman's Magazine published by Edward Cave.[6]
- Jethro Tull's treatise The New Horse-Houghing Husbandry; or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation.
Births
- February – Charles Churchill, poet (died 1764)
- 8 May – Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and abolitionist (died 1809)
- 10 October – Henry Cavendish, scientist (died 1810)
- 15 November – William Cowper, poet (died 1800)
- 12 December – Erasmus Darwin, scientist and grandfather of Charles Darwin (died 1802)
- date unknown – William Aiton, botanist (died 1793)
Deaths
- 24 April – Daniel Defoe, writer (born 1660)
- 11 May – Mary Astell, feminist writer (born 1666)
- 24 August – William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford, nobleman (born 1700)
- 29 December – Brook Taylor, mathematician (born 1685)
References
- ^ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 303. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ "Blandford, Dorset 1731". FireNet. 2009. Archived from the original on 16 December 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ^ Dickens, Charles (1869). All the Year Round. Charles Dickens. p. 258. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
- ^ Friar, Stephen (2001). The Sutton Companion to Local History (rev. ed.). Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 241. ISBN 0-7509-2723-2.
- ^ Munsell, Joel (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. D. Appleton & Co.