1722 in Great Britain

1722 in Great Britain:
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Sport
1722 English cricket season

Events from the year 1722 in Great Britain.

Contents

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

Incumbents

Monarch - George I of Great Britain
Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig

Events

17 October - Habeas Corpus Act suspended following the discovery of a Jacobite plot by Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, in support of the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart.^[1]

Undated

Construction begins of Senate House at the University of Cambridge, designed by James Gibbs.^[1]

Publications

Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders.^[1]

Births

26 January - Alexander Carlyle, church leader (died 1805)
April - Joseph Warton, poet and critic (died 1800)
11 April - Christopher Smart, poet (died 1771)
16 July - Joseph Wilton, sculptor (died 1803)
11 August - Richard Brocklesby, physician (died 1797)
16 September - Gabriel Christie, general (died 1799)
22 September - John Home, dramatist (died 1808)
5 November - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, dueler (died 1798)
30 December - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1770)
date unknown - Flora MacDonald, Jacobite (died 1790)

Deaths

20 January - Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester (born c. 1656)
21 January - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, supporter of William III of England (born 1661)
10 February - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate (born 1682)
19 April - Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, statesman (born c. 1674)
16 June - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, general (born 1650)
date unknown - John Cecil, 7th Earl of Exeter, peer (born 1700)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 298. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

See also

Years in Great Britain (1707–1800)