1723 in Great Britain

One half of an indenture document dated 24 June 1723, the ninth year of the reign of King George I of Great Britain.

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Events from the year 1723 in Great Britain.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch – George I
* Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)[1]

## Events

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* 8 March – the Chelsea Waterworks Company receives a Royal Charter.[2]
* 17 May – Christopher Layer is hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Jacobite Atterbury Plot
* May – Parliament passes the Black Act making poaching a capital offence.[3]
* June – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, receives a pardon for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion and is allowed to return to Britain, but not to sit in the House of Lords.[4] Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, is banished from the country during the year for his part in Jacobite plotting.[5]
* 10 October – Treaty of Charlottenburg signed with Prussia.[6]

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* Parliament passes the Workhouse Test Act.[7]

## Births

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* 23 February – Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
* 24 February – John Burgoyne, general (died 1792)
* 3 March – John Brown, merchant and ship-owner (died 1808)
* 5 March – Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1772)
* 23 April – Hannah Snell, soldier (died 1792)
* 16 June (5 June O.S.) – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (died 1790)
* 20 June
* Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 1816)
* Theophilus Lindsey, theologian (died 1808)
* 10 July – William Blackstone, jurist (died 1780)
* 16 July – Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (died 1792)
* 8 November – John Byron, admiral (died 1786)

## Deaths

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* 25 February – Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (born 1632)
* 26 February – Thomas d'Urfey, writer (born 1653)
* 31 March – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661)
* 11 April – John Robinson, diplomat (born 1650)
* 27 May – Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, illegitimate son of Charles II (born 1672)
* 26 July – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, statesman (born 1660)
* 17 August – Joseph Bingham, scholar (born 1668)
* 10 October – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor (born c.1665)
* 19 October – Godfrey Kneller, painter (born 1646, Lübeck)
* 1 December – Susanna Centlivre, dramatist and actress (born 1669)

## See also

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* 1723 in Wales

## References

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1. ^ "History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
2. ^ "Royal Charters, Privy Council website". Archived from the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
3. ^ "BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
4. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
5. ^ Hayton, D. W. (2004). "Atterbury, Francis (1663–1732)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/871. Retrieved 22 November 2012. (subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required)
6. ^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1723". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
7. ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2007.

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