1750 in Great Britain

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1750 English cricket season

Events from the year 1750 in Great Britain.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch – George II
* Prime Minister – Henry Pelham (Whig)[1]

## Events

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Westminster Bridge

* 17 January – John Canton reads a paper in the presence of the Royal Society of London on a method of making artificial magnets.[2]
* 8 February – an earthquake is felt in London.[3]
* 8 March – a second more powerful earthquake is felt in London.[3]
* 20 March – Samuel Johnson begins publication of the periodical The Rambler.[2]
* 11 April – Jack Slack (a butcher of Norwich) defeats Jack Broughton to become bare-knuckle boxing Champion of England
* 24 June – Iron Act, passed by Parliament, comes into effect, restricting manufacture of iron products in the American colonies.[2]
* 5 October – Treaty of Madrid, a commercial treaty with Spain, is signed.[4]
* 18 November – Westminster Bridge is officially opened for the general public to use,[5] the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Putney.

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* Establishment of the Jockey Club[2] and the Pytchley Hunt.
* Thomas Gainsborough's painting Mr and Mrs Andrews.[6]

## Births

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* 24 January – Helen Gloag, Scottish-born slave Empress of Morocco (died 1790)
* 18 February – David Bogue, nonconformist leader (died 1825)
* April – Joanna Southcott, religious fanatic (died 1814)
* 2 May – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (died 1780)
* 6 June – William Morgan, actuary (died 1833)
* 13 June – James Burney, admiral (died 1821)
* 26 September – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, admiral (died 1810)

## Deaths

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* 7 February – Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, aristocrat (born 1684)
* 8 February – Aaron Hill, dramatist (born 1685)
* 29 March – James Jurin, physician and mathematician (born 1684)
* 7 April – George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington, general (born 1701)
* 28 July – Conyers Middleton, religious controversialist and classical scholar (born 1683)
* 8 August – Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron (born 1701)
* 3 October – 'Captain' James MacLaine (or Maclean), gentleman highwayman (born 1724) (hanged at Tyburn)
* 13 December – Philemon Ewer, shipbuilder (born 1702)

## See also

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* 1750 in Wales

## References

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1. ^ "History of Henry Pelham - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
2. ^ a b c d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 313–314. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
3. ^ a b "Historical Earthquakes Listing". Archived from the original on 8 May 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2008.
4. ^ Savelle, Max (1974). Empires to Nations: Expansion in America, 1713-1824. University of Minnesota Press. p. 131.
5. ^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 976\. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
6. ^ "Mr and Mrs Andrews: Key Facts". The National Gallery. Archived from the original on 3 December 2009. Retrieved 8 January 2010.

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