1730 in Great Britain

1730 in Great Britain:

Other years

1729 | 1730 | 1731 | 1732

Sport

1730 English cricket season

Events from the year 1730 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)
• Parliament – 7th

Events

• 3 February – The Daily Advertiser is founded in London as the first newspaper funded by advertising.[1]
• 12 March – John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.[2]
• 15 May – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend resigns as Secretary of State for the Northern Department after a dispute with Robert Walpole.[1]

Undated

• The population of the UK exceeds 10 million for the first time.[3]
• Reputedly the last originally native roe deer in England is killed at Hexham, Northumberland.[4]

Births

• 16 April – Henry Clinton, general (died 1795)
• 26 April – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1805)
• 13 May – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (died 1782)
• 12 July – Josiah Wedgwood, potter (died 1795)
• 1 August – Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, Anglican Bishop of Derry, art collector and philanthropist (died 1803)
• 1 November – George Horne, bishop (died 1792)
• 30 December – William Hamilton, diplomat and antiquary (died 1803)
• date unknown – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, governor of the Province of New York (died 1809)

Deaths

• 1 January – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, politician (born 1647)
• 30 May – Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II (born 1648)
• 27 September – Laurence Eusden, poet (born 1688)
• 23 October – Anne Oldfield, actress (born 1683)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
3. "Time Series Chart of UK Public Spending". ukpublicspending.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
4. Langley, P. J. W.; Yalden, D. W. (1977). "The decline of the rarer carnivores in Great Britain during the nineteenth century". Mammal Review. 7 (3–4): 113. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.1977.tb00363.x.

See also