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1748 in Great Britain
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Contents
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Publications
Births
Unknown date
Deaths
See also
References
1748 in Great Britain
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Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1748 English cricket season
Events from the year
1748
in
Great Britain
.
Incumbents
Monarch
–
George II
Prime Minister
–
Henry Pelham
(
Whig
)
[
1
]
Events
28 March – a fire in the
City of London
causes over a million pounds worth of damage.
[
2
]
April – first
uniforms of the Royal Navy
introduced for commissioned officers and midshipmen.
August – Admiral
Edward Boscawen
commands a
Royal Navy
siege of
Pondicherry
.
[
3
]
18 October – the
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
ends the
War of the Austrian Succession
, by which
Madras
in
India
is restored to British rule in exchange for the fortress of
Louisbourg
in
Canada
with
France
.
[
4
]
Undated
Adam Smith
begins to deliver public lectures in
Edinburgh
.
Henry Fielding
organises the forerunner of the
Bow Street Runners
, with eight men at first.
[
3
]
John Fothergill
's pamphlet
Account of the Sore Throat attended with Ulcers
contains the first description of
diphtheria
.
[
3
]
Holywell Music Room
,
Oxford
, the first purpose-built concert hall in Europe, is opened.
[
5
]
Publications
While in
debtor's prison
,
John Cleland
writes the
erotic novel
Fanny Hill
(Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure)
, the first part of which is published anonymously on 21 November.
David Hume
's philosophical treatise
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
.
Samuel Richardson
's anonymous epistolary novel
Clarissa
.
[
3
]
Tobias Smollett
's anonymous picaresque novel
The Adventures of Roderick Random
.
[
3
]
James Thomson
's poem
The Castle of Indolence
, shortly before his death.
[
3
]
Births
15 February –
Jeremy Bentham
, philosopher and writer (died
1832
)
5 March –
William Shield
, violinist and composer (died
1829
)
10 March –
John Playfair
, scientist (died
1819
)
13 April –
Joseph Bramah
, inventor and locksmith (died
1814
)
28 May –
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle
(died
1825
)
August –
James Sayers
, caricaturist (died
1823
)
14 December –
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
(died
1811
)
Unknown date
George Dixon
, sea captain and explorer (died 1796)
Matchem
, racehorse (died 1781)
Deaths
14 March –
George Wade
, military leader (born
1673 in Ireland
)
12 April –
William Kent
, architect, landscape architect and furniture designer (born c.
1685
)
12 May –
Thomas Lowndes
, astronomer (born
1692
)
27 August –
James Thomson
, poet (born
1700 in Scotland
)
6 September –
Edmund Gibson
, Bishop of London and scholar (born
1669
)
12 September –
Anne Bracegirdle
, actress (born c.
1671
)
21 September –
John Balguy
, philosopher (born
1686
)
26 October –
Donald Cameron of Lochiel
, exiled Jacobite clan chief (born
1700 in Scotland
)
25 November –
Isaac Watts
, hymn writer (born
1674
)
2 December –
Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset
, politician (born
1662
)
See also
1748 in Wales
References
↑
"History of Henry Pelham - GOV.UK"
.
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
19 June
2023
.
↑
Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (995).
The London Encyclopaedia
. Macmillan. p.
287.
ISBN
0-333-57688-8
.
1
2
3
4
5
6
"1748." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006.
↑
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
312–313
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
↑
Tyack, Geoffrey (1998).
Oxford: An architectural guide
.
Oxford University Press
. pp.
187–
188.
ISBN
0-14-071045-0
.
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