1726 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1726 in Great Britain.
Incumbents[]
Events[]
- May – Voltaire begins an exile in England which lasts three years.[1]
- 25 May – Britain's first circulating library[2] is opened in Edinburgh[3] by poet and bookseller Allan Ramsay.
- 20 October – dedication of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London as designed by James Gibbs.[4]
- October–December – Mary Toft from Godalming causes a sensation by purporting to give birth to rabbits.
Undated[]
- Invention of the gridiron pendulum by John Harrison.[1]
- General George Wade begins an 11-year program of road improvement and bridge building in Scotland.[5]
Publications[]
- Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels.[1]
Births[]
- 17 January – Hugh Mercer, soldier and physician (died 1777)
- 8 March – Richard Howe, admiral (died 1799)
- 12 April – Charles Burney, music historian (died 1814)
- 12 May – Alexander Hood, naval officer (died 1814)
- 3 June – James Hutton, geologist (died 1797)
- 14 June – Thomas Pennant, naturalist (died 1798)
- 2 September – John Howard, prison reformer (died 1790)
- 26 September – John H. D. Anderson, scientist (died 1796)
Deaths[]
- 5 March – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, politician (born c. 1655)
- 26 March – John Vanbrugh, architect and dramatist (born 1664)
- 26 April – Jeremy Collier, theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (born 1650)
- 28 April – Thomas Pitt, Governor of Madras (born 1653)[6]
- 10 May – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, soldier (born 1670)
- 8 July – John Ker, spy (born )
- August – Colonel John Stewart, former Member of Parliament for the Kirkcudbright Stewartry, killed by Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs
- 23 November – Sophia, Princess of Zelle, queen of George I of Great Britain (born 1666)
References[]
- ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Altick, Richard D. (1957). The English Common Reader. University of Chicago Press.
- ^ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
- ^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1726". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 212–213. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Thomas Pitt | British merchant". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
See also[]
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