1747 in Great Britain

Great Britain-related events during the year of 1747

1747 in Great Britain:
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1747 English cricket season

Events from the year 1747 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

Events

  • 31 January – the first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.[2]
  • 9 April – The Scottish Jacobite Simon Fraser, forfeited Lord Lovat, is beheaded by axe on Tower Hill in London for high treason, the last person to be executed in this way in Britain. Around twenty would-be spectators of the event are killed when a grandstand collapses.
  • May – Abolition of Hereditable Jurisdictions Act breaks the power of the Scottish clans.[3]
  • 14 May – War of the Austrian Succession: First Battle of Cape Finisterre: British fleet is victorious against the French.
  • June
    • Britain forms an alliance with Russia.[4]
    • Indemnity Act of 1747 lifts further legal penalties from participants in the Jacobite rising of 1745.
  • 26 June – 4 August – Snap general election reinforces Henry Pelham's position as Prime Minister.[3]
  • 2 July
  • October – Thomas Herring is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • 25 October – War of the Austrian Succession: Second Battle of Cape Finisterre: British fleet puts an end to French naval operations for the remainder of the war.
  • 17–19 November – Knowles Riot in Boston, Massachusetts, against impressment to the British Royal Navy.

Undated

Publications

Births

  • birthdate unknown - Francis Salvador, Sephardic Jew born in London who became the first Jew elected to public office in British America, and the first Jew to die in the cause of American independence (died 1776)
  • 15 January – John Aikin, doctor and writer (died 1822)
  • 18 January – John Gillies, historian and classical scholar (died 1836)
  • 26 January – Samuel Parr, schoolmaster (died 1825)
  • 6 July – John Paul Jones, sailor and the United States's first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution (died 1792)
  • 12 December – Anna Seward, writer (died 1809)
  • Benjamin Vulliamy, clockmaker (died 1811)

Deaths

See also

References

  1. ^ "History of Henry Pelham - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  2. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  3. ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 219–220. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 311–312. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. ^ "Long Range Shooting, An Historical Perspective (2)". Archived from the original on 22 June 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
  6. ^ Carlisle, Rodney (2004). Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries. New Jersey: Wiley. p. 393. ISBN 0-471-24410-4.
  7. ^ "BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.