1757 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1757 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George II
- Prime Minister – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (Whig) (until 25 June); Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Whig) (starting 2 July)[1]
Events
- 2 January –
- 14 March – Admiralty and the House of Commons. General Edward Cornwallis, the ranking British Army officer at the battle, is exonerated of charges of dereliction of duty, but his career is ruined.
- 29 March – Matthew Hutton is nominated as Archbishop of Canterbury, being translated from York.
- 6 April – William Pitt the Elder resigns from the government after Prince William, Duke of Cumberland refuses to command the British forces in Germany in the Seven Years' War.[5]
- April–July – Caretaker Ministry takes power led by William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshirefollowing the resignation of Pitt.
- 6 May – asylum confinement of Christopher Smart: poet Christopher Smart is confined to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London.[6]
- May – the Baskerville typeface, designed by John Baskerville of Birmingham, is first used in a wove paper quarto edition of Virgil.[7]
- June – Pitt recalled to government in a coalition with Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.[5]
- 23 June – Plassey.[5]
- 2 July – the Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne forms a new government.
- 26 July – Seven Years' War: Louis d'Estréesand forced out of Hanover.
- 3–9 August – Battle of Fort William Henry a French army under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm forces the British to surrender Fort William Henry. The French army's Indian allies slaughter the survivors, not understanding the terms of the surrender.
- 24 December – the Pratt-Yorke opinion distinguishes overseas territories acquired by conquest from those acquired by private treaty: while the Crownof Great Britain enjoys sovereignty over both, only the property of the former is vested in the Crown.
- The government reduces the annual interest payable on Consolidated Annuities (consols) from 3.5% to 3%, where it will remain until 1888.[8]
Publications
- Edmund Burke's treatise A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.
- prostitutes, is first published.
Births
- 1 February – John Philip Kemble, actor (died 1823)
- 20 February – John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, philanthropist (died 1834)
- 9 April – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, admiral (died 1833)
- 30 May – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1844)
- 22 June – George Vancouver, explorer (died 1798)
- 9 August – Thomas Telford, engineer (died 1834)
- 13 August – James Gillray, caricaturist (died 1815)
- 14 October – Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester, barrister, statesman, Speaker of the Houser of Commons (died 1829)
- 13 November – Archibald Alison, Scottish author (died 1839)
- 27 November – Mary Robinson, poet, actress and royal mistress (died 1800)
- 28 November – William Blake, poet (died 1827)
- date unknown – Sir Thomas Foley, Welsh admiral (died 1833)
Deaths
- 15 January – George Gilmer, Sr., politician (born 1700)
- 19 January – 1664)
- 5 February – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (born 1678)
- 1 March – Edward Moore, writer (born 1712)[9]
- 8 March – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (born 1701)
- 14 March – John Byng, admiral (executed) (born 1704)
- 6 May – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, politician (born 1683)
- 28 August – David Hartley, English philosopher (born 1705)
- 21 October (bur.) – Rhoda Delaval, portrait painter (born 1725)
- 11 December
- Colley Cibber, English poet laureate and actor-manager (born 1671)
- Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-85752-224-5.
- ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Rosenberg, Chaim M. (2017). Losing America, Conquering India: Lord Cornwallis and the Remaking of the British Empire. McFarland. p. 59.
- ^ Voltaire (1759). Candide.
In this country, it is good to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
- ^ ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Sherbo, Arthur (1967). Christopher Smart: Scholar of the University. Michigan State University Press. p. 112. He may have been confined in a private madhouse before this.
- ^ Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Æneis.
- ^ LePan, Nicholas (2019-11-15). "The History of Interest Rates Over 670 Years". Visual Capitalist. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ISBN 978-1-349-16422-6.