1735 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1735 in Great Britain.

1735 in Great Britain:
Other years
1733 | 1734 | 1735 | 1736 | 1737
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1735 English cricket season

Incumbents
  • Monarch – George II
  • Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 17 May, until 26 October)[1]
  • Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)[2]

Events
  • 2 January – Alexander Pope's poem Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot is published in London.[3]
  • 8 January – premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London.[4]
  • 16 April – London premiere of Alcina by Handel, his first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House.[5]
  • 20 April – religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth church, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival.[6]
  • 10 May – Charles Macklin unintentionally kills fellow actor Thomas Hallam after a dispute during a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. He is later tried and convicted of manslaughter.
  • 22 May – George Hadley publishes the first explanation of the trade winds.[7]
  • 22 September – Robert Walpole moves into 10 Downing Street.[8]
  • 6 December – the second successful appendectomy is performed by naturalised French-born surgeon Claudius Aymand at St George's Hospital in London (the first was in 1731).[9]

Undated
  • William Hogarth produces his A Rake's Progress series of paintings.[5]
  • Unscrupulous London publisher Edmund Curll produces Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons containing forgeries.
  • Richard Leveridge writes a melody to Henry Fielding's The Roast Beef of Old England.
  • Beau Nash appoints himself master of ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells.

Births
  • 8 January – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Royal Navy admiral (died 1823)
  • 22 February – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, politician (died 1806)
  • 25 February (bapt.) – William Speechly, horticulturalist (died 1819)
  • 10 April (bapt.) – Button Gwinnett, 2nd Governor of Georgia (died 1777)
  • 8 May – Nathaniel Dance, portrait painter and politician (died 1811)
  • 7 September – Thomas Coutts, banker (died 1822)
  • 20 September – James Keir, Scottish-born geologist, chemist and industrialist (died 1820)
  • 28 September – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister (died 1811)[10]
  • 21 October – Richard Gough, antiquary (died 1809)
  • 10 November – Granville Sharp, abolitionist (died 1813)
  • 14 November – John Howie, Scottish biographer (died 1793)
  • 29 December – Thomas Banks, sculptor and artist (died 1805)

Undated
  • John Barrow, Catholic priest (died 1811)
  • Lumpy Stevens, cricketer (died 1819)

Deaths
  • 12 January – John Eccles, composer (born 1668)
  • 27 February – John Arbuthnot, physician and author (born 1667)
  • 29 March – Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, politician and colonial administrator (born 1700)
  • 5 April – William Derham, minister and writer (born 1657)
  • 25 April – Samuel Wesley, poet and religious leader (born 1662)
  • 10 June – Thomas Hearne, antiquarian (born 1678)
  • 14 December – Thomas Tanner, bishop and antiquarian (born 1674)

See also
  • 1735 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. Dated 1734. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  4. "1735." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 13 Jun, 2007
  5. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 305. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  6. Richard Bennett. "The Early Life of Howell Harris". The Revival Library. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  7. The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
  8. "Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
  9. Hutchinson, R. (February 1993). "Amyand's hernia". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 86 (2): 104–105. PMC 1293861. PMID 8433290.
  10. "History of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
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