1745 in Great Britain
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Incumbents
- Monarch – George II
- Prime Minister – Henry Pelham (Whig)
- Parliament – 9th
Events
- 30 April–11 May – War of the Austrian Succession: British forces defeated at the Battle of Fontenoy.[1]
- 16 June – King George's War: British capture Cape Breton Island in North America from the French.[1]
- 26 June – the earliest known women's cricket match, at Gosden Common in Surrey.[2]
- 23 July – Jacobite rising: The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart lands on Eriskay in the Hebrides in Scotland.[1]
- 15 August–26 August – War of the Austrian Succession: By the Convention of Hanover, King George II makes peace overtures to Prussia and ends support for Austria.[1]
- 16 August – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at Highbridge Skirmish.
- 19 August – Jacobite rising: Charles Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan.
- 11 September – Jacobite rising: Jacobites enter Edinburgh.[1]
- 16 September – Jacobite rising: "Canter of Coltbrigg": The 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites near Edinburgh.
- 17 September – Jacobite rising: in Edinburgh, Charles Stuart proclaims his father James Francis Edward Stuart as James VIII of Scotland.[1]
- 21 September – Jacobite rising: Government forces are defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans.[3]
- 28 September – the song later to become the British national anthem "God Save the King" is first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in a setting by Thomas Arne.[3]
- 13 November–15 November – Jacobite rising: Jacobites besiege and capture Carlisle.
- December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite garrison in Carlisle surrenders to Hanoverian forces under Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.
- 4 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces reach Derby causing panic in London.[1]
- 6 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces decide to retreat to Scotland.[1]
- 18 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Clifton Moor Skirmish,[1] the last action between two military forces on English soil.[4]
- 23 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Battle of Inverurie.
Undated
- West towers of Westminster Abbey completed.[2]
- The term "middle class" is first used.[5][6]
Publications
- Henry Fielding edits the pro-government publication The True Patriot.[1]
Births
- 23 January – William Jessop, civil engineer (died 1814)
- 2 February – John Nichols, printer and author (died 1826)
- 14 February – Lady Sarah Lennox, courtier (died 1826)
- 20 February – Henry James Pye, poet (died 1813)
- 4 March – Charles Dibdin, composer (died 1814)
- 12 May – William Creech, Scottish bookseller and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (died 1815)
- 17 October – William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, judge and jurist (died 1836)
Deaths
- 18 March – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1676)
- 28 May – Jonathan Richardson, portrait painter, writer on art and collector (born 1667)
- 10 October – Jonathan Swift, satirist (born 1667)
References
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 310–311. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 217–218. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- Unless the Battle of Graveney Marsh (1940) is counted.
- "middle class, n. and adj.". Oxford English Dictionary online version. Oxford University Press. March 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2012. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- Bradshaw, James (1745). A scheme to prevent the running of Irish wools to France: and Irish woollen goods to foreign countries. By prohibiting the importation of Spanish wools into Ireland, ... Humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament. By a Merchant of London. London: printed for J. Smith, and G. Faulkner. pp. 4–5. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
See also
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