1739 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1739 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George II
- Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig
Events
- 14 January - Britain and Spain sign the Convention of Pardo.[1]
- 16 January - First performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Saul at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, London.[1]
- February - George Whitefield first preaches in the open air, to miners at Kingswood, South Gloucestershire.
- April - John Wesley first preaches in the open air, at Whitefield's invitation.
- 4 April - First performance of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt at the King's Theatre, London.[1]
- 12 May - John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol, the world's first Methodist meeting house.[2]
- 17 October - The Foundling Hospital is created in London by Thomas Coram.[1]
- 23 October - Britain declares war on Spain. This becomes known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.[1]
- 20–22 November - War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of Porto Bello: British marine forces capture the Panamanian silver exporting town of Porto Bello from the Spanish.[1]
- December to February 1740 - The 'Great Frost': unusually harsh winter in southern England and Ireland.[3]
Publications
- January (dated 9 February) - The Scots Magazine first published.[4]
- David Hume's anonymous A Treatise of Human Nature[3] (issued late 1738 but dated this year).
- John Mottley's pseudonymous Joe Miller's Jests, or the Wits Vade-Mecum.
Births
- 6 January - David Dale, philanthropist (died 1806)
- 26 January - George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (died 1817)
- 4 February - John Robison, physicist (died 1805)
- 25 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany (died 1767)
- 16 May - Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk (died 1779)
- 5 November - Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton (died 1819)
- 4 December - Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston (died 1802)
- 23 May - James Henry (died 2002 in the United States)
Deaths
- 7 April - Dick Turpin, highwayman (hanged) (born 1705)
- 19 April - Nicholas Saunderson, scientist and mathematician (born 1682)
- 10 August - William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven, nobleman. (born 1700)
- 4 September - George Lillo, playwright (born 1693)
- 21 October - William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester (born 1700)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ "History of The New Room". Bristol: The New Room. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 215–216. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Ward, A. W. (2009). The Cambridge History of English Literature 9. p. 614.
See also
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