1750 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1750 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch â George II
- Prime Minister â Henry Pelham (Whig)[1]
Events
- 17 January â John Canton reads a paper in the presence of the Royal Society of London on a method of making artificial magnets.[2]
- 8 February â an earthquake is felt in London.[3]
- 8 March â a second more powerful earthquake is felt in London.[3]
- 20 March â Samuel Johnson begins publication of the periodical The Rambler.[2]
- 11 April â Jack Slack (a butcher of Norwich) defeats Jack Broughton to become bare-knuckle boxing Champion of England
- 24 June â Iron Act, passed by Parliament, comes into effect, restricting manufacture of iron products in the American colonies.[2]
- 5 October â Treaty of Madrid, a commercial treaty with Spain, is signed.[4]
- 18 November â Westminster Bridge is officially opened for the general public to use,[5] the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Putney.
Undated
- Establishment of the Jockey Club[2] and the Pytchley Hunt.
- Thomas Gainsborough's painting Mr and Mrs Andrews.[6]
Births
- 24 January â Helen Gloag, Scottish-born slave Empress of Morocco (died 1790)
- 18 February â David Bogue, nonconformist leader (died 1825)
- April â Joanna Southcott, religious fanatic (died 1814)
- 2 May â John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (died 1780)
- 6 June â William Morgan, actuary (died 1833)
- 13 June â James Burney, admiral (died 1821)
- 26 September â Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, admiral (died 1810)
Deaths
- 7 February â Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, aristocrat (born 1684)
- 8 February â Aaron Hill, dramatist (born 1685)
- 29 March â James Jurin, physician and mathematician (born 1684)
- 7 April â George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington, general (born 1701)
- 28 July â Conyers Middleton, religious controversialist and classical scholar (born 1683)
- 8 August â Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron (born 1701)
- 3 October â 'Captain' James MacLaine (or Maclean), gentleman highwayman (born 1724) (hanged at Tyburn)
- 13 December â Philemon Ewer, shipbuilder (born 1702)