1724 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1724 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

20 February - Première of Julius Caesar in Egypt, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London.^[1]
6 April - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne becomes Secretary of State for the Southern Department; Henry Pelham becomes Secretary at War.^[2]
16 November - Jack Sheppard is hanged in London. (His partner-in-crime, highwayman Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, was similarly executed five days earlier.)

Blenheim Palace construction is completed. It is presented as a gift to the Duke of Marlborough for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.
Longman, the oldest publishing house in England, is founded.

24 January - Frances Brooke, writer (died 1789)
28 February - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, field marshal (died 1807)
29 April - John Michell, scientist and geologist (died 1793)
19 May - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, admiral and politician (died 1779)
3 June - John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (died 1773)
8 June - John Smeaton, civil engineer (died 1792)
25 August - George Stubbs, painter (died 1806)
3 September - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, soldier and Governor of Quebec (died 1808)
31 October - Christopher Anstey, writer (died 1805)
12 December - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, admiral (died 1816)

↑ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.