1719 in Great Britain

1719 in Great Britain:
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1719 English cricket season

Events from the year 1719 in Great Britain.

Contents

1 Incumbents
2 Events
- 2.1 Undated
3 Publications
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References
7 See also

Incumbents

Monarch - King George I

Events

April - Bank rate set at 5%, at which it will remain for more than a century.^[1]
28 April - A Peerage Bill, proposed by Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, to prevent the creation of peers in the House of Lords is defeated in the House of Commons.^[2]
10 June - British Government forces defeat an alliance of Jacobite and Spanish forces at the Battle of Glen Shiel in Scotland.^[2]

Undated

The South Sea Company proposes a scheme by which it would buy more than half the national debt of Britain in exchange for concessions.^[2]

Publications

25 April - Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.^[2]
Eliza Haywood's novel Love in Excess, vol. I–II.^[3]

Births

23 January - John Landen, mathematician (died 1790)
13 February - George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (died 1792)
4 March - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, governor of Madras (died 1777)
13 March - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, field marshal (died 1797)
30 May - Roger Newdigate, politician (died 1806)
11 August - George Augustus Selwyn, Member of Parliament (died 1791)

Deaths

18 January - Samuel Garth, physician and poet (born 1661)
17 June - Joseph Addison, politician and writer (born 1672)
7 September - John Harris (writer), writer (born c.1666)
27 September - George Smalridge, Bishop of Bristol (born 1662)
26 November - John Hudson, classical scholar (born 1662)
31 December - John Flamsteed, astronomer (born 1646)

References

^ "Changes in Bank Rate". Bank of England. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/rates/baserate.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 297. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

See also

Years in Great Britain (1707–1800)