1726 in Great Britain

Great Britain-related events during the year of 1726
1726 in Great Britain:
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1726 English cricket season

Events from the year 1726 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

Events

  • May – Voltaire begins an exile in England which lasts three years.[2]
  • 9 May – Catherine Hayes, convicted with two lovers for the brutal murder and dismemberment of her husband in London the previous year, becomes the last woman burned to death at the stake in England, at Tyburn (by this date it is usual for the condemned to be strangled before burning, but the process is botched in this case).[3]
  • 25 May – Britain's first circulating library[4] is opened in Edinburgh[5] by poet and bookseller Allan Ramsay.
  • 27 June – the Grand Allies, a cartel of coalowning families in the Northumberland and Durham Coalfield, is formed by George and Henry Liddell, George Bowes and Sidney and Edward Wortley.[6]
  • 20 October – dedication of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London as designed by James Gibbs.[7]
  • October–December – Mary Toft from Godalming causes a sensation by purporting to give birth to rabbits.

Undated

Publications

Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. ^ "History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  3. ^ Linnane, Fergus (2004). London's Underworld: Three Centuries of Vice and Crime. London: Robson. ISBN 1861057423.
  4. ^ Altick, Richard D. (1957). The English Common Reader. University of Chicago Press.
  5. ^ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
  6. ^ "1726". Co-Curate. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  7. ^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1726". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
  8. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 212–213. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  9. ^ "Thomas Pitt | British merchant". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 20 September 2021.