1723 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1723 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George I
- Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)
Events
- 8 March – The Chelsea Waterworks Company receives a Royal Charter.[1]
- May – Parliament passes the Black Act making poaching a capital offence.[2]
- June – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, receives a pardon for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion and is allowed to return to Britain, but not to sit in the House of Lords.[3] Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, is banished from the country during the year for his part in Jacobite plotting.[4]
- 10 October – Treaty of Charlottenburg signed with Prussia.[5]
Undated
- Parliament passes the Workhouse Test Act.[6]
Births
- 23 February – Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
- 24 February – John Burgoyne, general (died 1792)
- 5 March – Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1772)
- June – Adam Smith, economist and philosopher (died 1790)
- 20 June
- Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (died 1816)
- Theophilus Lindsey, theologian (died 1808)
- 10 July – William Blackstone, jurist (died 1780)
- 16 July – Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (died 1792)
- 8 November – John Byron, admiral (died 1786)
Deaths
- 25 February – Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1632)
- 26 February – Thomas d'Urfey, writer (born 1653)
- 31 March – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661)
- 11 April – John Robinson, diplomat (born 1650)
- 26 July – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, statesman (born 1660)
- 17 August – Joseph Bingham, scholar (born 1668)
- 10 October – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor (born c.1665)
- 19 October – Godfrey Kneller, painter (born 1646, Lübeck)
- 1 December – Susanna Centlivre, dramatist and actress (born 1669)
References
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