1732 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1732 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George II
- Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 7 June, until 26 September)[1]
- Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)
- Parliament – 7th
Events
- April–May – first performances, in London, of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Esther.[2]
- 7 December – the original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (the modern–day Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich.[3]
Undated
- Secession Church formed in Scotland.[4]
- Trinity House moors the world's first lightship at the Nore in the Thames Estuary.[5]
Births
- 19 February – Richard Cumberland, dramatist (died 1811)
- 13 April – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (died 1792)
- 6 October – Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (died 1811)
- 6 December – Warren Hastings, administrator (died 1818)
- 23 December – Richard Arkwright, inventor (died 1792)
- Approximate date – John Julius Angerstein, merchant and insurer (died 1822)
Deaths
- 12 January – John Horsley, archaeologist (born c. 1685)
- 22 February – Francis Atterbury, bishop and man of letters (born 1663)
- 20 May – Thomas Boston, church leader (born 1676)
- 1 June – Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland (born 1700)
- 16 July – Woodes Rogers, privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (born c. 1679)
- 4 December – John Gay, poet and dramatist (born 1685)
References
- Pryde, E. B., ed. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. London: Chapman and Hall.
- "Trinity House – Lightvessels". PortCities London. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
See also
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