1737 in Great Britain

1737 in Great Britain:

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Countries of the United Kingdom

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Sport

1737 English cricket season

Events from the year 1737 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (until 14 January)^[1]
• Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)^[2]

Events

• January – John Potter appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury (installed 28 February).
• 2 March – Samuel Johnson and his former pupil David Garrick leave Lichfield to seek their fortunes in London.
• 17 May – construction of the circular Radcliffe Library at the University of Oxford begins.^[3]
• 28 May – the
  Royal Greenwich Observatory
  . As of 2006, it is the only such planet/planet occultation to be directly observed.
• 21 June – the Licensing Act requires plays to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for censorship and reduces the number of legitimate theatres.^[4]
• 10 October – King George II expels Frederick, Prince of Wales from the royal court for criticising the government.^[3]
• c. 3 November – Alexander Cruden's A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament first published.
• December – Bristol Infirmary admits its first patients. This year also Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is founded.
• Undated
  • Howel Harris preach in Talgarth
    churchyard.
  • The Whole Duty of a Woman "by a lady" includes a recipe for "a dripping pudding", the first record of Yorkshire pudding.

Births

• 29 January – Thomas Paine, pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical and intellectual (died 1809, New York)
• 19 April – John Small, cricketer (died 1826)
• 27 April – Edward Gibbon, historian (died 1794)
• 2 May –
  Prime Minister (died 1805)^[5]
• 31 July – Princess Augusta of Great Britain, member of the Royal Family (died 1813)
• 11 August – Joseph Nollekens, sculptor (died 1823)
• 14 August – Charles Hutton, mathematician (died 1823)
• 1 October –
  Charles Towneley, antiquary (died 1805
  )
• date unknown
  • Frances Abington, actress (died 1815)^[6]
  • Richard Watson, bishop and academic (died 1816)

Deaths

• 24 January – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1657)
• 29 January –
  1666
  )
• 1 February –
  1652
  )
• 14 February –
  Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor (born 1685
  )
• 20 February – Elizabeth Rowe, poet and novelist (born 1674)
• 4 May – Eustace Budgell, writer (born 1686)
• 27 September – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, privy councillor (born 1680)
• 29 September – Joseph Adams, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. (born 1700)
• 20 November – Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain (born 1683, Ansbach)
• 11 December – John Strype, historian and biographer (born 1643)
• 27 December –
  William Bowyer, printer (born 1663
  )

• 1737 in Wales

References