1762 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1762 in Great Britain.

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

Incumbents

Monarch - King George III
Prime Minister - Duke of Newcastle, Whig (to 26 May), Earl of Bute, Tory

Events

January - The "Cock Lane ghost" appears in London.
4 January - Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.^[1]
10 March - Seven Years' War - Britain captures Grenada from France.^[2]
May - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne resigns and is succeeded as Prime Minister by John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute;^[1] a large number of Newcastle's 'Old Corps Whig' followers are dismissed from public office in the following months in what is known facetiously as the "Massacre of the Pelhamite Innocents".^[3]
22 May - Royal family first takes up residence at Buckingham House.^[2]
5 June - John Wilkes founds the radical newspaper The North Briton.
24 June - Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Wilhelmsthal, the Anglo-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats the French forces in Westphalia. The British commander Lord Granby distinguishes himself.
mid-July–24 November - Seven Years' War: British troops reinforce the Portuguese to resist the Invasion of Portugal by Spain.^[4]
10 August - Seven Years' War: In the Battle of Manila, British forces seize Havana from Spain.^[1]
September - Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships is founded in London. The world's oldest mutual insurer, it pioneers age-based premiums based on the mortality rate.^[1]^[5]
15 September - French and Indian War: Battle of Signal Hill is fought between France and Britain in North America.
24 September–6 October - Seven Years' War: Battle of Manila fought between Great Britain and Spain resulting in the British occupation of the Philippines until 1764. The British take Manila and make it an Open Port.^[1]

Undated

Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Scottish Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.^[6]
Building of the Plymouth Synagogue, the oldest built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English-speaking world.^[7]
The last remaining buildings are cleared from London Bridge.^[8]

Publications

Laurence Sterne's collected sermons The Sermons of Mr. Yorick.
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's architectural treatise Antiquities of Athens.

Births

12 February - Solomon Hirschell, chief rabbi of the United Kingdom (died 1842)
12 August - King George IV of the United Kingdom (died 1830)
11 September - Joanna Baillie, writer (died 1851)
24 September - William Lisle Bowles, poet and critic (died 1850)
21 October - George Colman the Younger, dramatist and miscellaneous writer (died 1836)
1 November - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1812)

William Dawes, Royal Marine officer (died 1836)

Deaths

3 February - Beau Nash, dandy (born 1674)
23 June - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis (died 1700)
13 July - James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (born 1693)
28 July - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (born 1691)
21 August - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (born 1689)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 321–322. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 223–224. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown. 1995. p. 591. ISBN 1-85585-178-4.
^ Simms, Brendan (2007). Three Victories and a Defeat: the Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 9780713994261.
^ "Today & History". Equitable Life. 2009-06-26. http://www.equitable.co.uk/content/content_7.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
^ Richards, Eric (1982). A History of the Highland Clearances. 1. London: Croom Helm. p. 249. ISBN 070992246X.
^ "Synagogue, Catherine Street, Plymouth". English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=473229. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
^ Latham, Mark (2010). "The death of London's 'living bridge'". The London Journal 35: 164-84.

1762 in Great Britain

Contents

Incumbents

Events

Undated

Publications

Births

Deaths

References

See also