1729 in Great Britain

1729 in Great Britain:

Other years

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Sport

1729 English cricket season

Events from the year 1729 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)

Events

• 1 May – a tornado destroys buildings in Sussex and Kent.^[1]
• 9 November – Treaty of Seville signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic.^[2]
• November – completion of the first (wooden) Putney Bridge as the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Kingston.

Undated

• Chiswick House in London, a pioneering example of English Palladian revival architecture, is designed by its owner Richard Boyle with William Kent.
• Opening of Dr Williams's Library in London as a research centre for nonconformist theology.^[3]

Publications

• Robert Samber's fairy tales Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose (translated from Charles Perrault).
• Jonathan Swift's satire A Modest Proposal.^[3]

Births

• 9 June – Thomas Turner, diarist (died 1793)
• 10 August – Lord Howe, general (died 1814)
• Samuel Barrington, admiral (died 1800)
• William Buchan, doctor (died 1805)
• John Moore, Scottish physician and writer (died 1802)

Deaths

• 19 January – William Congreve, playwright (born 1670)
• 21 March – John Law, economist (born 1671)
• 17 May – Samuel Clarke, philosopher (born 1675)
• 5 August – Thomas Newcomen, inventor (born 1663)
• 1 September – Richard Steele, essayist and co-founder of The Tatler (born 1672, Dublin)
• 9 October – Richard Blackmore, physician and writer (born 1654)
• 10 October – Thomas Fairchild, gardener (born 1667?)
• 13 December – Anthony Collins, philosopher (born 1676)

References

See also