1729 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1729 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George II
- Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 22 May, until 11 September)[1]
- Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)
- Parliament – 7th
Events
- 1 May – a tornado destroys buildings in Sussex and Kent.[2]
- 9 November – Treaty of Seville signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic.[3]
- 28 November – theologian Thomas Woolston is convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to prison for the remaining four years of his life on account of his published Discourses on Biblical literalism.
- November – completion of the first (wooden) Putney Bridge as the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Kingston.
Undated
- Chiswick House in London, a pioneering example of English Palladian revival architecture, is designed by its owner Richard Boyle with William Kent.
- Opening of Dr Williams's Library in London as a research centre for nonconformist theology.[4]
Publications
- Robert Samber's fairy tales Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose (translated from Charles Perrault).
- Jonathan Swift's satire A Modest Proposal.[4]
Births
- 9 June – Thomas Turner, diarist (died 1793)
- 10 August – Lord Howe, general (died 1814)
- 6 October – Sarah Crosby, Methodist preacher (died 1804)
- Samuel Barrington, admiral (died 1800)
- William Buchan, Scottish physician (died 1805)
- John Moore, Scottish physician and writer (died 1802)
- William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina and New York (died 1788)
Deaths
- 19 January – William Congreve, playwright (born 1670)
- 21 March – John Law, economist (born 1671)
- 17 May – Samuel Clarke, philosopher (born 1675)
- 5 August – Thomas Newcomen, inventor (born 1663)
- 1 September – Richard Steele, essayist and co-founder of The Tatler (born 1672, Dublin)
- 9 October – Richard Blackmore, physician and writer (born 1654)
- 10 October – Thomas Fairchild, gardener (born 1667?)
- 13 December – Anthony Collins, philosopher (born 1676)
References
- ^ Pryde, E. B., ed. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ 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. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.