1751 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1751 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

31 March - Frederick, Prince of Wales dies and is succeeded by his son the future George III of the United Kingdom as Prince of Wales.^[1]
April - The Gin Act requires government inspection of distilleries and restricts sale to licenced premises.^[2]
31 August - Robert Clive takes the Indian town of Arcot from the French.^[1]
20 October - Charles, Duke of Bolton, marries celebrated actress Lavinia Fenton, already the mother of his three children.

A British settlement is founded in Georgetown in North America.^[1]
Parliament passes the Calendar Act introducing the Gregorian Calendar, correcting the eleven day difference and making 1 January New Year's Day from 1752.^[1]
William Hogarth engraves the prints Gin Lane, Beer Street and The Four Stages of Cruelty.^[2]

2 May - John André, soldier (died 1780)
11 July - Caroline Matilda of Wales, posthumously-born daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and later queen consort of Denmark (died 1775)
date unknown - Thomas Sheraton, furniture designer (died 1806)

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