1723 in Great Britain
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Incumbents
- Monarch â George I
- Prime Minister â Robert Walpole (Whig)[1]
Events
- 8 March â the Chelsea Waterworks Company receives a Royal Charter.[2]
- 17 May â Christopher Layer is hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Jacobite Atterbury Plot
- May â Parliament passes the Black Act making poaching a capital offence.[3]
- June â 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 â Treaty of Charlottenburg signed with Prussia.[6]
Undated
- Parliament passes the Workhouse Test Act.[7]
Births
- 23 February â Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
- 24 February â John Burgoyne, general (died 1792)
- 3 March â John Brown, merchant and ship-owner (died 1808)
- 5 March â Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1772)
- 23 April â Hannah Snell, soldier (died 1792)
- 16 June (5 June O.S.) â 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 â William Blackstone, jurist (died 1780)
- 16 July â Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (died 1792)
- 8 November â John Byron, admiral (died 1786)
Deaths
- 25 February â Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (born 1632)
- 26 February â Thomas d'Urfey, writer (born 1653)
- 31 March â Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661)
- 11 April â John Robinson, diplomat (born 1650)
- 27 May â Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, illegitimate son of Charles II (born 1672)
- 26 July â Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, statesman (born 1660)
- 17 August â Joseph Bingham, scholar (born 1668)
- 10 October â William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor (born c.1665)
- 19 October â Godfrey Kneller, painter (born 1646, Lübeck)
- 1 December â Susanna Centlivre, dramatist and actress (born 1669)
