1732 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1732 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George II of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig

Events

• 7 December - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened.^[1]

Undated

• Secession Church formed in Scotland.^[2]
• First performance in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Esther.^[3]
• Trinity House moors the world's first lightship at the Nore in the Thames Estuary.^[4]

Births

• 19 February - Richard Cumberland, dramatist (died 1811)
• 13 April - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (died 1792)
• 6 October - Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (died 1811)
• 6 December - Warren Hastings, administrator (died 1818)
• 23 December - Richard Arkwright, inventor (died 1792)

Deaths

• 12 January - John Horsley, archaeologist (born c.1685)
• 22 February - Francis Atterbury, bishop and man of letters (born 1663)
• 20 May - Thomas Boston, church leader (born 1676)
• 1 June - Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland (born 1700)
• 16 July - Woodes Rogers, privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (born c.1679)
• 4 December - John Gay, poet and dramatist (born 1685)

References

See also