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| # | Year | Year Summary | Last Update | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 1723 | Monarch is King George I. Prime Minister is Robert Walpole (Whig). | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 62 | 1729 | Monarch was George II. Prime Minister was Robert Walpole (Whig). The Treaty of Seville was signed between Great Britain, France, and Spain, ending the Anglo-Spanish War. The first (wooden) Putney Bridge is completed. Novels from Daniel Defoe and music from Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach. 1729 can be written as MDCCXXIX. | 23-Oct-2017 12:00 | |
| 63 | 1746 | Monarch was George II. Prime Minister is Henry Pelham (Whig). Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart) occupies Stirling as part of the Jacobite rising. Samuel Johnson is contracted to write '<em>A Dictionary of the English Language'</em>. | 03-Feb-2021 12:21 | |
| 64 | 1757 | Monarch is George II. Prime Minister is William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (Whig), then on 2nd July it is Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Whig). The Seven Years' War continues. 1757 is MDCCLVII. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 65 | 1758 | Monarch is King George II. Prime Minister is Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Whig). The Seven Years' War continues, many battles during the year. American inventor J. Rechendorf obtains a patent for a one-piece pencil with eraser. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 66 | 1762 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Whig) until 26 May and then John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (Tory). Seven Years' War continues. Britain declares war on Spain and Naples. Royal family takes up residence at Buckingham House. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 67 | 1763 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (Tory) but is replaced by George Grenville (Whig) in April. Josiah Wedgwood receives orders for his pottery from Queen Charlotte. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 68 | 1767 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Whig). The Townshend Acts introduced, placing a tax on common products, such as lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea; American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. Josiah Spode establishes <em>Spode pottery</em> in Stoke-on-Trent. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 69 | 1770 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (Whig), who resigned 28 January 1770, then Frederick North, Lord North (Tory). English explorer Captain James Cook takes <em>HMS Endeavour</em> on his first voyage to Australian. The population of the American colonies reaches 2,210,000; British troops clash with American colonists as the American Revolution continues. At home the Industrial Revolution: James Hargreaves obtains a patent for the <em>Spinning Jenny</em>. David Hartley, leader of the Cragg Vale Coiners, is hanged near York for making counterfeit gold coins. The chemist Joseph Priestley, recommends the use of a rubber eraser to remove pencil marks. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 70 | 1774 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is Frederick North, Lord North (Tory). Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen in the form of a gas. The laws of cricket introduces a leg before wicket rule. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 71 | 1779 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is Frederick North, Lord North (Tory). <br />It's the Industrial Revolution. The <em>Spinning Mule</em> is invented by Samuel Crompton. The Iron Bridge is erected across the River Severn in Shropshire. Boulton and Watt's Smethwick Engine moves into service, and it still works today. Captain James Cook dies on his third and last voyage.<br />The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) continues as American fights the War of Independence against Britain. Many battles are fought throughout 1779. | 02-Apr-2021 14:29 | |
| 72 | 1787 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is William Pitt the Younger (Tory). America begins to write a new Constitution for the United States. Later, Delaware ratifies the Constitution and becomes the first U.S. state. The original Lord's Cricket Ground holds its first cricket match and Marylebone Cricket Club (the MCC) founded. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 73 | 1788 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is William Pitt the Younger (Tory). President of the Federal Government in America is Cyrus Griffin (from January 29) as States 4 to 11 (Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia and New York) ratify the United States Constitution. First edition of <em>The Times</em>. The MCC publishes revised <em>Laws of Cricket</em>. Robert Burns writes his version of the Scots poem <em>Auld Lang Syne</em>. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 74 | 1789 | Monarch is George III. Prime Minister is William Pitt the Younger (Tory). United States Constitution President (from 4th March) is George Washington (no political party-Virginia); John Adams is vice-President. Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against Captain William Bligh in Polynesia; Captain Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile journey in an open boat. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 75 | 1795 | The Monarch is George III. Prime Minister is William Pitt the Younger (Tory). The US President is George Washington with Vice President John Adams. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 76 | 1797 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is William Pitt the Younger (Tory). US President is George Washington (no political party); on 4th March it is John Adams (F-Massachusetts). The copper "Cartwheel" twopence coins pressed, for the only time, at Boulton and Watt's Soho Mint, Birmingham. Bank of England notes are inconvertible to gold, it is the 'Restrictive Period'. The Bank issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes (the £1 remains in issue until 11 March 1988). Horatio Nelson is Knighted. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 77 | 1802 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is Henry Addington (Tory) after a General election. US President is Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia). The Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst opens and so does the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. William Herschel coins the term <em>asteroid</em> and <em>binary star</em>. Marie Tussaud holds its first exhibits of her wax sculptures in London. | 03-Feb-2021 12:21 | |
| 78 | 1808 | Monarch is King George III. Prime Minister is William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (Tory). US President is Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia). Napoleonic Wars continue (1803–1815). | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 | |
| 79 | 1813 | Monarch was George III. Prime Minister was Lord Liverpool (Tory). "Uncle Sam" was first used to refer to U.S. (in the Troy Post of New York). Americans under General Pike capture Toronto. British invade Plattsburgh, New York. Napoleonic Wars as Prussia declares war on France. Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria and Russia). Peninsular War, Battle of Vitoria when British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces under Wellington defeats a French force under Joseph Bonaparte. The British government removed the British East India Company’s monopoly of trade with India. Last striking of Guinea coins, to pay Wellington's army in the Pyrenees. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published anonymously in London. 1813 can be written as MDCCCXIII. | 23-Oct-2017 11:49 | |
| 80 | 1816 | George III is King but due to illness his son George is Prince Regent. Prime Minister is Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory). US President is James Madison (DR-Virginia). Sir Humphry Davy's lamp is first tested. The Coinage Act and Great Recoinage attempt to stabilise the currency by reintroduction of silver coinage for transactions under forty shillings and changing the gold coinage from the guinea valued at 21 shillings to the slightly lighter gold sovereign worth 20 shillings and defining the value of the pound sterling relative to gold. | 19-Sep-2020 14:32 |