1754 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1754 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George II
- Prime Minister – Henry Pelham (Whig) (until 6 March); Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Whig) (starting 16 March)[1]
Events
- 28 January – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
- 6 March – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne becomes Prime Minister following the death of his brother Henry Pelham.[2]
- 25 March – Lord Harwicke's Marriage Act 1753 "for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage" comes into force in England and Wales.
- 18 April–20 May – Oxfordshire election.
- 14 May – The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is founded in Scotland;[2] it will come to control the rules of golf.
- 28 May – French Canadians under Joseph Coulon de Jumonville (who is killed) in the first action of the global Seven Years' War and the North American French and Indian War.
Publications
- 2 July – Leeds Intelligencer first published.
- The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director.[4]
- Jane Collier and Sarah Fielding's The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable.
- The History of Great Britain begins publication.[2]
- Isaac Newton (d. 1727)'s 1690 dissertation An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture.
Births
- 6 February – Andrew Fuller, Particular Baptist minister, promoter of missionary work (died 1815)
- 16 June – Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr, English politician and co-founder of the Marylebone Cricket Club (died 1820)
- 11 July – Thomas Bowdler, physician (died 1825)
- 21 August – William Murdoch, inventor (died 1839)
- 7 September – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer, wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (died 1792)
- 9 September – William Bligh, sailor (died 1817)
- 24 December – George Crabbe, poet (died 1832)
Deaths
- 10 January – Edward Cave, editor and publisher (born 1691)
- 16 February – Richard Mead, physician (born 1673)
- 27 February – John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel, English politician (born 1690)
- 6 March – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister (born 1696)
- 2 April – Thomas Carte, historian (born 1686)
- 23 May – John Wood, the Elder, architect (born 1704)
- 2 June – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish Secessionist minister (born 1680)
- 7 July – Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (born 1699)
- 23 August – William Cleghorn, Scottish philosopher (born 1718)
- 29 September – William Keen, first resident judicial officer in the British colony of Newfoundland (born c. 1680)
- 8 October – Henry Fielding, novelist (born 1707)
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-85752-224-5.
- ^ ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1750–1800". Archived from the original on 2007-08-17. Retrieved 2007-08-24.