1727 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1727 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

February - Spain besieges Gibraltar in order to recapture the territory.^[1]
20 February - The German composer George Frideric Handel becomes a British subject.^[1]
31 May - The Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by Royal Charter in Edinburgh.^[2]
11 June - King George I dies en route to Hanover. His son, George, Prince of Wales, becomes King George II of Great Britain.^[2]
30 August - Anne, eldest daughter of George II, is given the title Princess Royal.
8 September - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell, Cambridgeshire, kills 78 people, many of them children.
11 October - Coronation of George II at Westminster Abbey. Handel's Coronation Anthems are composed for the event, including Zadok the Priest which has been played at every subsequent coronation.^[1]

An old woman known as Janet (Jenny) Horne of Loth, Sutherland, becomes the last alleged witch in the British Isles to be executed when she is burned at the stake in Dornoch, Scotland.^[3] (Some sources give the date as June 1722.)^[4]

2 January - James Wolfe, general Hero of Quebec by defeating the invading French (died 1759)
14 May - Thomas Gainsborough, artist (died 1788)

31 March - Sir Isaac Newton, scientist (born 1642)
11 June - King George I (born 1660, Hanover)
23 July - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born c. 1660)
14 August - William Croft, composer (born 1678)

1 2 3 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 301. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
1 2 Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1727". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
↑ "Dornoch in the 18th century". Historylinks Museum. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
↑ Neill, W. N. (1923). "the Last Execution for Witchcraft in Scotland, 1722". Scottish Historical Review. 20: 218–21. JSTOR 25519547.

1727 in Europe

Sovereign states	Andorra Austria Denmark–Norway Denmark Norway France Great Britain Holy Roman Empire Hungary Ireland Malta Monaco Netherlands Ottoman Empire Papal States Portugal Prussia Russia San Marino Spain Sweden Switzerland

Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey

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