31 March – Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, extends the Bangorian Controversy by delivering a sermon to, and supposedly at the request of, King George on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ with the text "My kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36), concluding there is no Biblical justification for church government.[3]
November – a rift between the King and his son the Prince of Wales leads to the latter with his wife being banished from the royal household but not allowed to take their children with them. The Prince now sides with the Opposition Whigs.
8 March – Abraham Darby I, first of that name of three generations of a Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution (born 1678)
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