1730 in Great Britain

1730 in Great Britain:
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Sport
1730 English cricket season

Events from the year 1730 in Great Britain.

Contents

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

Incumbents

Monarch - King George II
Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig

Events

15 May - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend resigns as Secretary of State for the Northern Department after a dispute with Robert Walpole.^[1]

Undated

Glasite sect formed in Scotland.^[2]
The Daly Advertiser is founded as the first newspaper funded by advertising.^[1]
Reputedly the last originally native roe deer in England is killed at Hexham, Northumberland.^[3]

Births

16 April - Henry Clinton, general (died 1795)
26 April - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1805)
13 May - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (died 1782)
12 July - Josiah Wedgwood, potter (died 1795)
1 November - George Horne, bishop (died 1792)
30 December - William Hamilton, diplomat and antiquary (died 1803)
date unknown
- John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, governor of the Province of New York (died 1809)

Deaths

1 January - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, politician (born 1647)
30 May - Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II (born 1648)
27 September - Laurence Eusden, poet (born 1688)
23 October - Anne Oldfield, actress (born 1683)

References

^ ^a ^b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ William L. R. Cates (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
^ Langley, P.J.W.; Yalden, D.W. (1977). "The decline of the rarer carnivores in Great Britain during the nineteenth century". Mammal Review 7 (3–4): 113. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.1977.tb00363.x.

See also

Years in Great Britain (1707–1800)