1719 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1719 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
- February – The Handel, Bononciniand others.
- April – Bank rate set at 5%, at which it will remain for more than a century.[1]
- 13 April – A Jacobite force under George Keith reaches Loch Alsh in the Scottish Highlands and disembarks, launching the Jacobite rising of 1719
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- 10 June – British Government forces defeat an alliance of Jacobite and Spanish forces at the Battle of Glen Shiel in Scotland.[2]
- 18 June – Stopping Dagenham Breach by Capt. John Perry is completed.[4]
- 10 October – British expedition under captures Vigo during the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
- December – 1719 Establishment lays down the technical specifications for construction of warships for the Royal Navy.
- Undated
- James Figg opens one of the first indoor venues for combat sports, adjoining the City of Oxford tavern in Oxford Road, London.[5]
- Raine's Foundation School, Bethnal Green (founded by Henry Raine), opens in Wapping; it will survive for 300 years.
- The national debt of Britain in exchange for concessions.[2]
Publications
- 25 April – Daniel Defoe's (anonymous) novel Robinson Crusoe.[2]
- 20 November – Shakespeare's Coriolanus, it is intended as a patriotic attack on the Jacobites.
- Love in Excess; Or, The Fatal Enquiry, vol. I.[6]
- Isaac Watts's 'Our God, Our Help in Ages Past' published.
Births
- 17 January – Samuel Enderby, whale oil merchant, sponsor of Arctic exploration (died 1797)
- 22 January – Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (died 1769)
- 23 January – John Landen, mathematician (died 1790)
- 13 February – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney(died 1792)
- 4 March – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, governor of Madras (died 1777)
- 13 March – John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, field marshal (died 1797)
- 29 March – John Hawkins, author (died 1789)
- 9 April – Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1804)
- 30 May – Roger Newdigate, politician (died 1806)
- 23 July – Frances Boscawen, diarist and bluestocking (died 1805)
- 11 August – George Augustus Selwyn, Member of Parliament (died 1791)
- 6 September – Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick(died 1754)
- 21 September – Larcum Kendall, watchmaker (died 1790)
- 4 November – James Cawthorn, poet and schoolmaster (died 1761)
Deaths
- 18 January – Samuel Garth, physician and poet (born 1661)
- 1 March – Richard Ingoldesby, soldier and colonial governor
- 31 May – Edmund Dunch, Whig politician (born 1657)
- 17 June – Joseph Addison, writer and politician (born 1672)
- 23 June – Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer and Member of Parliament (born 1684)
- 17 July – Elinor James, pamphleteer (born 1644)
- 7 September – John Harris, encyclopaedist (born c. 1666)
- 27 September – George Smalridge, Bishop of Bristol (born 1662)
- 22 November – William Talman, architect (born 1650)
- 26 November – John Hudson, classical scholar (born 1662)
- 31 December – John Flamsteed, astronomer (born 1646)
- Benjamin Hornigold, pirate, shipwrecked (born 1680)
See also
References
- ^ "Changes in Bank Rate" (PDF). Bank of England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ McKechnie, The reform of the House of Lords etc.
- .
- JSTOR 43609260.
- ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.