1731 - Bef 1742 (< 10 years)
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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1700 | - 1700—1799:
SA - VOC slave trading in Mozambique; Zanzibar and Madagascar
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| 2 | 1720 | - 1720—1749:
SA - Western Cape Khoekhoe reduced to labouring class
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| 3 | 1731 | - 1731—1731:
Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull [others say 1701]
- 1731—1731:
Invention of sextant by John Hadley
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| 4 | 1732 | - 1732—1732:
SA - Annual rental of a leningplaats doubled to 24 rixdollars. Quitrent system of land tenure introduced.
- 7 Dec 1732—7 Dec 1732:
Covent Garden Opera House opens
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| 5 | 1733 | - 1733—1733:
Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine -
Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax
- 1733—1733:
Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in
Latin for a few years
- 1733—1733:
John Kay invents the flying shuttle, revolutionised the weaving industry
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| 6 | 1734 | - 1734—1734:
SA - Great Brak River proclaimed eastern boundary of Cape.
- 1734—1734:
Kent's Directory published
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| 7 | 1737 | - 1737—1743:
SA - Short-lived Moravian mission to Khoekhoe
- 1737—1737:
Licensing Act restricts the number of London theatres and subects plays to censorship
of the Lord Chamberlain (till 1950s)
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| 8 | 1738 | - 24 May 1738—24 May 1738:
John Wesley has his conversion experience
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| 9 | 1739 | - 1739—1739:
Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
- 7 Apr 1739—7 Apr 1739:
Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York
- 23 Oct 1739—23 Oct 1739:
War of Jenkins' Ear starts: Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain
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| 10 | 1741 | - 1741—1741:
Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - Earliest Moravian
registers
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