1732 in Great Britain

1732 in Great Britain:

Other years

1730 | 1731 | 1732 | 1733 | 1734

Sport

1732 English cricket season

Events from the year 1732 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

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

Events

• April–May - First performances, in London, of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Esther.^[1]
• 7 December - The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (the modern-day Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich.^[2]

Undated

• Secession Church formed in Scotland.^[3]
• Trinity House moors the world's first lightship at the Nore in the Thames Estuary.^[4]

Births

• 19 February - Richard Cumberland, dramatist (died 1811)
• 13 April - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (died 1792)
• 6 October - Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (died 1811)
• 6 December - Warren Hastings, administrator (died 1818)
• 23 December - Richard Arkwright, inventor (died 1792)
• Approximate date - John Julius Angerstein, merchant and insurer (died 1822)

Deaths

• 12 January - John Horsley, archaeologist (born c. 1685)
• 22 February - Francis Atterbury, bishop and man of letters (born 1663)
• 20 May - Thomas Boston, church leader (born 1676)
• 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)
• 4 December - John Gay, poet and dramatist (born 1685)

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. Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. London: Chapman and Hall.
4. "Trinity House – Lightvessels". PortCities London. Retrieved 2011-08-13.

See also