1729 in Great Britain

1729 in Great Britain:

Other years

1727 | 1728 | 1729 | 1730 | 1731

Sport

1729 English cricket season

Events from the year 1729 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 22 May, until 11 September)[1]
• Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)
• Parliament – 7th

Events

• 1 May – a tornado destroys buildings in Sussex and Kent.[2]
• 9 November – Treaty of Seville signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic.[3]
• 28 November – theologian Thomas Woolston is convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to prison for the remaining four years of his life on account of his published Discourses on Biblical literalism.
• November – completion of the first (wooden) Putney Bridge as the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Kingston.

Undated

• Chiswick House in London, a pioneering example of English Palladian revival architecture, is designed by its owner Richard Boyle with William Kent.
• Opening of Dr Williams's Library in London as a research centre for nonconformist theology.[4]

Publications

• Robert Samber's fairy tales Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose (translated from Charles Perrault).
• Jonathan Swift's satire A Modest Proposal.[4]

Births

• 9 June – Thomas Turner, diarist (died 1793)
• 10 August – Lord Howe, general (died 1814)
• 6 October – Sarah Crosby, Methodist preacher (died 1804)
• Samuel Barrington, admiral (died 1800)
• William Buchan, Scottish physician (died 1805)
• John Moore, Scottish physician and writer (died 1802)
• William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina and New York (died 1788)

Deaths

• 19 January – William Congreve, playwright (born 1670)
• 21 March – John Law, economist (born 1671)
• 17 May – Samuel Clarke, philosopher (born 1675)
• 5 August – Thomas Newcomen, inventor (born 1663)
• 1 September – Richard Steele, essayist and co-founder of The Tatler (born 1672, Dublin)
• 9 October – Richard Blackmore, physician and writer (born 1654)
• 10 October – Thomas Fairchild, gardener (born 1667?)
• 13 December – Anthony Collins, philosopher (born 1676)

References

1. Pryde, E. B., ed. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
2. "Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
3. Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
4. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

See also