1743 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1743 in Great Britain.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch – George II
  • Prime Minister – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (Whig) (until 2 July); Henry Pelham (Whig) (starting 27 August)
  • Parliament –
George on a white horse
George II at the Battle of Dettingen, by John Wootton
Henry Pelham

Events[]

  • 21 February – premiere in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson.
  • 2 March – War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of La Guaira – A British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish off the South American coast.
  • 13 April – British East India Company ship Princess Louisa is wrecked off the coast of Maio Island in the Cape Verde Islands, killing 49 of her 179 crew.
  • 16 June (27 June New Style) – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Dettingen is fought in Bavaria. King George II leads the troops of Britain and Brunswick to victory over the French – the last time a reigning British monarch participates in a battle. The Prime Minister, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, is also present, observing from a carriage. George Frideric Handel writes the oratorio Dettingen Te Deum in celebration of the King's victory.[1]
  • 13 July – all 276 people on board the Dutch East India Company ship Hollandia drown after the ship strikes a rock off Annet, Isles of Scilly.
  • 20 July – Lord Anson captures the Philippine galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga and its treasure of 1,313,843 Spanish dollars at Manila.[2]
  • 14 August – Great Fire of Crediton in Devon.
  • 27 August – Henry Pelham becomes Prime Minister, following the death of Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, on 2 July.[3][4]
  • 13 September – Treaty of Worms signed between Great Britain, the Holy Roman Emperor and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
  • 25 October – France and Spain form the Alliance of Fontainebleau with the aim of recapturing Gibraltar from Britain.[1]
  • 11 December – Princess Louise, the King's daughter, marries Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark and Norway.[5]

Undated[]

riots in London.
  • Dr Christopher Packe produces the first geological map of south-east England.[6]
  • Last wolf said to be killed in Scotland.[7]
  • William Hogarth begins painting his Marriage à-la-mode series.[1]

Publications[]

  • Robert Blair's poem The Grave is published.[8]
  • The final edition of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad is published.[1]

Births[]

  • 1 January – William Parker, admiral (died 1802)
  • 13 February – Joseph Banks, naturalist and botanist (died 1820)
  • 14 March – Hannah Cowley, dramatist and poet (died 1809)
  • 24 April – Edmund Cartwright, clergyman and inventor of the power loom (died 1823)
  • July – William Paley, philosopher (died 1805)

Deaths[]

  • 4 April – Daniel Neal, English historian (born 1678)
  • 23 May – Thomas Archer, baroque architect (born 1668)
  • 2 July – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1674)[9]
  • 1 August – Richard Savage, writer (born c. 1697)
  • 5 August – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (born 1696)
  • 23 August – Mary Edwards, heiress (born 1705)
  • 4 October – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (born 1678)
  • 5 October – Henry Carey, poet, dramatist and songwriter, suicide (born 1687)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. ^ Mourelle, Francisco Antonio (1920). Voyage of the Sonora in the Second Bucareli Expedition. T. C. Russell. p. 108.
  3. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 217–218. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. ^ "PMs in History, Henry Pelham". Archived from the original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2007.
  5. ^ Beatty, Michael A. (2003). The English Royal Family of America, from Jamestown to the American Revolution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 164. ISBN 0786415584.
  6. ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
  7. ^ "The Wolf in Scotland". ElectricScotland. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  8. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  9. ^ "Spencer Compton, earl of Wilmington | English noble". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
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