1723 in Great Britain

1723 in Great Britain:
Other years
1721 \| 1722 \| 1723 \| 1724 \| 1725
Sport
1723 English cricket season

Events from the year 1723 in Great Britain.

Contents

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

Incumbents

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

Events

8 March - The Chelsea Waterworks Company receives a Royal Charter.^[1]
May - Parliament passes the Black Act making poaching a capital offence.^[2]
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.^[3]
10 October - Treaty of Charlottenburg signed with Prussia.^[4]

Undated

Parliament passes the Workhouse Test Act.^[5]

Births

23 February - Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
24 February - John Burgoyne, general (died 1792)
5 March - Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1772)
June - Adam Smith, economist and philosopher (died 1790)
20 June
- Adam Ferguson, 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

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)
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)

References

^ "Royal Charters, Privy Council website". http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page44.asp. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
^ "BBC History British History Timeline". http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Everett, Jason M., ed (2006). "1723". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750". http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750. Retrieved 2007-08-24.

See also

Years in Great Britain (1707–1800)