1723 in Great Britain
Great Britain-related events during the year of 1723
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Events from the year 1723 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George I
- Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)[1]
Events
- 8 March – the Chelsea Waterworks Company receives a Royal Charter.[2]
- 17 May – Christopher Layer is hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Jacobite Atterbury Plot
- May – Parliament passes the Black Act making poaching a capital offence.[3]
- June – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, receives a pardon for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion and is allowed to return to Britain, but not to sit in the House of Lords.[4] Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, is banished from the country during the year for his part in Jacobite plotting.[5]
- 10 October – Treaty of Charlottenburg signed with Prussia.[6]
Undated
- Parliament passes the Workhouse Test Act.[7]
Births
- 23 February – Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
- 24 February – John Burgoyne, general (died 1792)
- 3 March – John Brown, merchant and ship-owner (died 1808)
- 5 March – Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1772)
- 23 April – Hannah Snell, soldier (died 1792)
- 16 June (5 June O.S.) – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (died 1790)
- 20 June
- Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 1816)
- Theophilus Lindsey, theologian (died 1808)
- 10 July – William Blackstone, jurist (died 1780)
- 16 July – Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (died 1792)
- 8 November – John Byron, admiral (died 1786)
Deaths
- 25 February – Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (born 1632)
- 26 February – Thomas d'Urfey, writer (born 1653)
- 31 March – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661)
- 11 April – John Robinson, diplomat (born 1650)
- 27 May – Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, illegitimate son of Charles II (born 1672)
- 26 July – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, statesman (born 1660)
- 17 August – Joseph Bingham, scholar (born 1668)
- 10 October – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor (born c.1665)
- 19 October – Godfrey Kneller, painter (born 1646, Lübeck)
- 1 December – Susanna Centlivre, dramatist and actress (born 1669)
See also
References
- ^ "History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
- ^ "Royal Charters, Privy Council website". Archived from the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ "BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Hayton, D. W. (2004). "Atterbury, Francis (1663–1732)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/871. Retrieved 22 November 2012. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1723". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
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