1711 in Great Britain

1711 in Great Britain:

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Events from the year 1711 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Anne

Events

• 24 February - The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket.^[1]
• 1 March - First edition of the magazine The Spectator published.^[2]
• 23 May - Robert Harley made Earl of Oxford.
• 29 May - Harley made Lord High Treasurer.
• 11 August - The first race meeting is held at Ascot Racecourse.^[3]
• 22 August - The Quebec Expedition, a British attempt to attack Quebec as part of Queen Anne's War, fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in the Saint Lawrence River and 850 soldiers drown, one of the worst disasters in British history up to this date.
• 8 September - The South Sea Company receives a Royal Charter.^[4]
• 15 December - Occasional Conformity Act bars nonconformists and Roman Catholics from public office.^[5]
• 31 December - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough is replaced by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde as the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.^[1]

Undated

• Commission for Building Fifty New Churches set up under terms of the New Churches in London and Westminster Act (1710).^[6]
• Alexander Pope publishes the poem An Essay on Criticism.^[1]

Births

• 7 May - David Hume, philosopher (died 1776)
• 19 August - Edward Boscawen, admiral (died 1761)
• 1 September - William Boyce, composer (died 1779)
• 22 September - Thomas Wright, astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist (died 1786)
• 5 November - Catherine Raftor, later Kitty Clive, actress (died 1785)

Deaths

• 19 March - Thomas Ken, bishop and hymn-writer (born 1637)
• 2 May - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, statesman (born 1641)
• 6 July - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, politician (born 1662)
• 25 August - Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, politician (born c. 1656)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
3. "Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
4. "Royal Charters, Privy Council website". Archived from the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
5. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 208–209. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
6. 9 Anne cap 17.

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