1735 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1735 in Great Britain .

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 17 May, until 26 October) ^[1]
• Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig) ^[2]

Events

• 2 January – Alexander Pope's poem Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot is published in London. ^[3]
• 8 January – premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London. ^[4]
• 16 April – London premiere of Alcina by Handel, his first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House. ^[5]
• 20 April – religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth church, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival. ^[6]
• 10 May – Charles Macklin unintentionally kills fellow actor Thomas Hallam after a dispute during a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. He is later tried and convicted of manslaughter.
• 22 May – George Hadley publishes the first explanation of the trade winds. ^[7]
• 25 June – Engraving Copyright Act ('Hogarth's Act') takes effect on being given royal assent, the first of a series of copyright protection laws, to protect original engravings against unauthorized copies. ^{[4] [8]}
• 22 September – Robert Walpole moves into 10 Downing Street. ^[9]
• 14 October – John Wesley and his brother Charles set sail from England for Savannah in the Province of Georgia in British America; on the voyage they first encounter members of the Moravian Church.
• 6 December – the second successful appendectomy is performed by naturalised French-born surgeon Claudius Aymand at St George's Hospital in London (the first was in 1731). ^[10]

Undated

• William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress series of paintings are published as engraved prints in London. ^[5]
• Unscrupulous London publisher Edmund Curll produces Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons containing forgeries.
• Richard Leveridge writes a melody to Henry Fielding's The Roast Beef of Old England .
• Beau Nash appoints himself master of ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells.

Births

• 8 January – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Royal Navy admiral (died 1823)
• 22 February – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, politician (died 1806)
• 25 February (bapt.) – William Speechly, horticulturalist (died 1819)
• 10 April (bapt.) – Button Gwinnett, 2nd Governor of Georgia (died 1777)
• 8 May – Nathaniel Dance, portrait painter and politician (died 1811)
• 7 September – Thomas Coutts, banker (died 1822)
• 20 September – James Keir, Scottish-born geologist, chemist and industrialist (died 1820)
• 28 September – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister (died 1811) ^[11]
• 21 October – Richard Gough, antiquary (died 1809)
• 10 November – Granville Sharp, abolitionist (died 1813)
• 14 November – John Howie, Scottish biographer (died 1793)
• 29 December – Thomas Banks, sculptor and artist (died 1805)

Undated

• John Barrow, Catholic priest (died 1811)
• Lumpy Stevens, cricketer (died 1819)

Deaths

• 12 January – John Eccles, composer (born 1668)
• 27 February – John Arbuthnot, physician and author (born 1667)
• 29 March – Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, politician and colonial administrator (born 1700)
• 5 April – William Derham, minister and writer (born 1657)
• 25 April – Samuel Wesley, poet and religious leader (born 1662)
• 10 June – Thomas Hearne, antiquarian (born 1678)
• 14 December – Thomas Tanner, bishop and antiquarian (born 1674)

See also

• 1735 in Wales

References

1. Pryde, E. B., ed. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN   978-0-521-56350-5.
2. "History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
3. Dated 1734. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-860634-6.
4. Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
5. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p.  305. ISBN   0-304-35730-8.
6. Richard Bennett. "The Early Life of Howell Harris". The Revival Library. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
7. The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN   1-85986-000-1.
8. Rose, Mark (January–March 2005). "Technology and Copyright in 1735: The Engraver's Act". The Information Society . 21: 63–66. doi:10.1080/01972240590895928. S2CID   9859369.
9. "Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
10. Hutchinson, R. (February 1993). "Amyand's hernia". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 86 (2): 104–105. PMC   1293861 . PMID   8433290.
11. "History of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2023.