1732 in Great Britain

1732 in Great Britain:

Other years

1731 | 1732 | 1733 | 1734

Sport

1732 English cricket season

Events from the year 1732 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 7 June, until 26 September)[1]
• Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)
• Parliament – 7th

Events

• April–May – first performances, in London, of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Esther.[2]
• 7 December – the original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (the modern–day Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich.[3]

Undated

• Act provides that any man after 24 June 1733 charged on oath with being the father of an illegitimate child should be imprisoned until he provides a financial bond to indemnify the parish from liability for it under the Poor Law.[4]
• Secession Church formed in Scotland.[5]
• Trinity House moors the world's first lightship at the Nore in the Thames Estuary.[6]

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. Pryde, E. B., ed. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
3. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
4. "Bastardy or Illegitimacy in England". Price Genealogy. July 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
5. Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. London: Chapman and Hall.
6. "Trinity House – Lightvessels". PortCities London. Retrieved 13 August 2011.

See also