1733 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1733 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George II
- Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig
Events
- 23 January - First performance of George Frideric Handel's opera Orlando in London.[1]
- 12 February - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.[1]
- 26 May - John Kay patents the flying shuttle.[1]
- 7 November - France and Spain sign the treaty of Escurial and form an alliance against Britain.[1]
Undated
- The Sugar and Molasses Act is passed by Parliament to tax British colonists in North America.[2]
- Robert Walpole's unpopular plan to introduce an excise to replace tariffs on wine and tobacco rocks his government.[3]
Births
- 13 February - Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor (died 1805)
- 13 March - Joseph Priestley, scientist and minister (died 1804)
- 27 July - Jeremiah Dixon, surveyor and astronomer (died 1779)
Deaths
- 25 January - Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (born 1652)
- 27 January - Thomas Woolston, theologian (born 1668)
- 19 April - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England (born 1657)
- 10 May - Barton Booth, actor (born 1681)
- 16 August - Matthew Tindal, deist (born 1657)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 303–304. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ "1733." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 13 Jun, 2007
- ↑ "BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
See also
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