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1723 in Great Britain
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Contents
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Births
Deaths
See also
References
One half of an indenture document dated 24 June 1723, the ninth year of the reign of King George I of Great Britain.
1723 in Great Britain:
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Sport
1723 English cricket season
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
1723 in Wales
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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