1732 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1732 in Great Britain.

1732 in Great Britain:
Other years
1730 | 1731 | 1732 | 1733 | 1734
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1732 English cricket season

Incumbents
  • Monarch – George II
  • Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 7 June, until 26 September)[1]
  • Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)[2]

Events
  • 14 February – first performance of Henry Fielding's comedy The Modern Husband, at the Royal Theatre on Drury Lane in London.
  • 3 March – Captain Charles Gough rediscovers Gough Island in the South Atlantic.[3][4]
  • 30 March – MPs John Birch and Denis Bond are expelled from the House of Commons after using their positions on the Commission for Forfeited Lands to make fraudulent sales.
  • April–May – first performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Esther, in London.[5]
  • 9 June – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.[6]
  • 7 December – the original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (predecessor of the Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich.[7]

Undated
  • Act provides that any man after 24 June 1733 charged on oath with being the father of an illegitimate child should be imprisoned until he provides a financial bond to indemnify the parish from liability for it under the Poor Law.[8]
  • Secession Church formed in Scotland.[9]
  • Trinity House moors the world's first lightship at the Nore in the Thames Estuary.[10]

Births
  • February – Charles Churchill, satirist and poet (died 1764)
  • 19 February – Richard Cumberland, dramatist (died 1811)
  • April – George Colman the Elder, dramatist and essayist (died 1794)
  • 13 April – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (died 1792)[11]
  • 15 August – Maria Coventry, Countess of Coventry, society beauty (died 1760)
  • 6 October – Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (died 1811)
  • 6 December – Warren Hastings, colonial administrator (died 1818)
  • 23 December – Richard Arkwright, inventor (died 1792)

Deaths
  • 12 January – John Horsley, archaeologist (born c. 1685)
  • 22 January – Louis de Sabran, theologian (born 1652)
  • 6 February – Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wealthy Scottish peeress (born 1651)
  • 7 February – William Hiseland, soldier, reputed supercentenarian (born 1620)
  • 22 February – Francis Atterbury, bishop and man of letters (born 1663)
  • 20 May – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (born 1676)
  • 30 May – John King, churchman (born 1652)
  • 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)
  • 6 October – George Duckett, politician (born 1684)
  • 26 November – Charles Sergison, politician (born 1655)
  • 4 December – John Gay, poet and dramatist (born 1685)

See also
  • 1732 in Wales

References
  1. Pryde, E. B., ed. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
  2. "History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  3. Wright, Gabriel (1804). A new nautical directory for the East-India and China navigation. W. Gilbert. p. 394. OCLC 680511332.
  4. Heaney, J. B.; Holdgate, M. W. (1957). "The Gough Island Scientific Survey". The Geographical Journal. 123: 20–31. doi:10.2307/1790719. JSTOR 1790718.
  5. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  6. Bennett, William J.; Cribb, John T. E. (2008). The American Patriot's Almanac. Thomas Nelson Inc. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-59555-267-9.
  7. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  8. "Bastardy or Illegitimacy in England". Price Genealogy. July 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  9. Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. London: Chapman and Hall.
  10. "Trinity House – Lightvessels". PortCities London. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
  11. "History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
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