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Male Abt 1891 -

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   Date  Event(s)
1 1700 
  • 1700—1799:
    SA - VOC slave trading in Mozambique; Zanzibar and Madagascar
2 1719 
  • 1719—1719:
    Third abortive Jacobite rising
3 1720 
  • 1720—1749:
    SA - Western Cape Khoekhoe reduced to labouring class
  • 1720—1720:
    South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Exchange Alley - government assumes control of National Debt
  • 1720—1720:
    Manufacturing towns start to increase in population - rise of new wealth
  • 1720—1720:
    Wallpaper becomes fashionable in England
4 1721 
  • 2 Apr 1721—2 Apr 1721:
    Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
5 1722 
  • 1722—1722:
    SA - Groot Constantia is built.
  • 1722—1722:
    Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
  • 1722—1722:
    Knatchbull's Act, poor laws
6 1723 
  • 1723—1723:
    Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate
  • 1723—1723:
    The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching - repealed in 1827
  • 1723—1723:
    The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
7 1724 
  • 1724—1724:
    Rapid growth of gin drinking in England
  • 1724—1724:
    Longman's founded (Britain's oldest publishing house)
8 1726 
  • 1726—1726:
    First circulating library opened in Edinburgh
  • 1726—1726:
    Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison
9 1727 
  • 1727—1727:
    Board of Manufacturers established in Scotland
  • 11 Jun 1727—11 Jun 1727:
    George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
10 1729 
  • 9 Nov 1729—9 Nov 1729:
    Treaty of Seville signed between Britain, France and Spain - Britain maintained control of Port Mahon and Gibraltar
11 1730 
  • 1730—1730:
    SA - The VOC imports slaves from Mozambique and Zanzibar. First Boers reach George area, trek inland into Langkloof.
  • 1730—1730:
    Irish famine
12 1731 
  • 1731—1731:
    Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull [others say 1701]
  • 1731—1731:
    Invention of sextant by John Hadley
13 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
14 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
15 1734 
  • 1734—1734:
    SA - Great Brak River proclaimed eastern boundary of Cape.
  • 1734—1734:
    Kent's Directory published
16 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)
17 1738 
  • 24 May 1738—24 May 1738:
    John Wesley has his conversion experience
18 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
19 1741 
  • 1741—1741:
    Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - Earliest Moravian registers
20 1742 
  • 1742—1742:
    England goes to war with Spain - incited by William Pitt the Elder (Earl of Chatham) for the sake of trade
21 1743 
  • 1743—1743:
    SA - First recorded Trekboer loan farms in Roggeveld
  • 1743—1743:
    SA - Dutch Reformed Church congregations founded in Roodezand and Tulbagh.
  • 16 Jun 1743—16 Jun 1743:
    (June 27 in Gregorian calendar): Battle of Dettingen - last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle
22 1744 
  • 1744—1744:
    Tune 'God Save the King' makes its appearance
23 1745 
  • 1745—1745:
    SA - Dutch Reformed Church congregations founded in Swartland (Malmesbury).
  • 1745—1745:
    Jacobite rebellion in Scotland ('The Forty-five')
  • 19 Aug 1745—19 Aug 1745:
    Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender) lands in the western Highlands - raises support among Episcopalian and Catholic clans - The Pretender's army invades Perth, Edinburgh, and England as far as Derby
24 1746 
  • 1746—1746:
    SA - Swellendam is founded.
  • 16 Apr 1746—16 Apr 1746:
    Battle of Culloden - last battle fought in Britain - 5,000 Highlanders routed by the Duke of Cumberland and 9,000 loyalists Scots - Young Pretender Charles flees to Continent, ending Jacobite hopes forever - the wearing of the kilt prohibited
25 1747 
  • 1747—1747:
    Act for Pacification of the Highlands
  • 1747—1747:
    Abolition of Heritable Jurisdictions in Scotland
26 1749 
  • 27 Apr 1749—27 Apr 1749:
    First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks (in Green Park, London)

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