1730 in Great Britain

1730 in Great Britain:

Other years

1728 | 1729 | 1730 | 1731 | 1732

Sport

1730 English cricket season

Events from the year 1730 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George II
• Prime Minister - Robert Walpole (Whig)

Events

• 3 February - The Daily Advertiser is founded in London as the first newspaper funded by advertising.^[1]
• 12 March - John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.^[2]
• 15 May - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend resigns as Secretary of State for the Northern Department after a dispute with Robert Walpole.^[1]

Undated

• The population of the UK exceeds 10 million for the first time.^[3]
• Reputedly the last originally native roe deer in England is killed at Hexham, Northumberland.^[4]

Births

• 16 April - Henry Clinton, general (died 1795)
• 26 April - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1805)
• 13 May - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (died 1782)
• 12 July - Josiah Wedgwood, potter (died 1795)
• 1 November - George Horne, bishop (died 1792)
• 30 December - William Hamilton, diplomat and antiquary (died 1803)
• date unknown
  • John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, governor of the Province of New York (died 1809)

Deaths

• 1 January - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, politician (born 1647)
• 30 May - Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II (born 1648)
• 27 September - Laurence Eusden, poet (born 1688)
• 23 October - Anne Oldfield, actress (born 1683)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
3. "Time Series Chart of UK Public Spending". ukpublicspending.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
4. Langley, P. J. W.; Yalden, D. W. (1977). "The decline of the rarer carnivores in Great Britain during the nineteenth century". Mammal Review. 7 (3–4): 113. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.1977.tb00363.x.

See also