1726 in Great Britain

1726 in Great Britain:

Other years

1724 | 1725 | 1726 | 1727 | 1728

Sport

1726 English cricket season

Events from the year 1726 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George I
• Prime Minister - Robert Walpole (Whig)

Events

• May - Voltaire begins an exile in England which lasts three years.^[1]
• 25 May - Britain's first circulating library^[2] is opened in Edinburgh^[3] by poet and bookseller Allan Ramsay.

Undated

• Completion of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London as designed by James Gibbs.^[4]
• Invention of the gridiron pendulum by John Harrison.^[1]
• General George Wade begins an 11-year program of road improvement and bridge building in Scotland.^[5]

Publications

• Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels.^[1]

Births

• 17 January - Hugh Mercer, soldier and physician (died 1777)
• 8 March - Richard Howe, admiral (died 1799)
• 12 April - Charles Burney, music historian (died 1814)
• 12 May - Alexander Hood, naval officer (died 1814)
• 3 June - James Hutton, geologist (died 1797)
• 14 June - Thomas Pennant, naturalist (died 1798)
• 2 September - John Howard, prison reformer (died 1790)
• 26 September - John H. D. Anderson, scientist (died 1796)

Deaths

• 5 March - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, politician (born c. 1655)
• 26 March - John Vanbrugh, architect and dramatist (born 1664)
• 26 April - Jeremy Collier, theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (born 1650)
• 28 April - Thomas Pitt, Governor of Madras (born 1653)
• 10 May - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, soldier (born 1670)
• 8 July - John Ker, spy (born 1673)
• August - Colonel John Stewart, former Member of Parliament for the Kirkcudbright Stewartry, killed by Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs
• 23 November - Sophia, Princess of Zelle, queen of George I of Great Britain (born 1666)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Altick, Richard D. (1957). The English Common Reader. University of Chicago Press.
3. "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
4. Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1726". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
5. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 212–213. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

See also