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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1711
1711 in Great Britain:
Other years
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Events from the year
1711 in
Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
24 February – premiere of
Rinaldo by
George Frideric Handel , the first Italian
opera written for the London stage, at the
Queen's Theatre ,
Haymarket .
[1]
1 March – first edition of the magazine
The Spectator published.
[2]
5 April (Easter Sunday) – the central tower of
Elgin Cathedral in northeast Scotland collapses.
[3]
22 May – Company of
Blanket Weavers of
Witney in Oxfordshire incorporated by royal charter to regulate the trade.
[4]
23 May –
Robert Harley made
Earl of Oxford .
29 May – Harley made
Lord High Treasurer .
7 August –
capture of the galleon San Joaquin : Spanish galleon San Joaquin in a treasure fleet sailing from
Cartagena de Indias (modern-day Colombia) to Spain surrenders after an engagement with five British ships.
11 August – the first race meeting is held at
Ascot Racecourse , "Her Majesty's Plate".
[5]
22 August – the
Quebec Expedition , a British attempt to attack
Quebec as part of
Queen Anne's War , fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in the
Saint Lawrence River and 850 soldiers drown,
one of the worst disasters in British history up to this date.
8 September – the
South Sea Company receives a
Royal Charter .
[6]
12 September –
Siege of Bouchain in the
War of the Spanish Succession concludes with the last major victory for
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough .
14 October –
Woodes Rogers returns to England after a successful round-the-world
privateering cruise against
Spain , carrying loot worth £150,000.
5 November – the southwest spire of
Southwell Minster in
Nottinghamshire is struck by lightning, resulting in a fire that spreads to the nave and tower, destroying roofs, bells, clock and organ.
7 December - The
Earl of Nottingham successfully proposes an amendment in the
House of Lords calling for "
No Peace Without Spain ".
15 December –
Occasional Conformity Act bars nonconformists and
Roman Catholics from public office.
[7]
25 December – the rebuilding of
St Paul's Cathedral in London to a design by Sir
Christopher Wren is declared complete by Parliament;
[8]
Old St Paul's had been destroyed by the 1666
Great Fire of London .
31 December –
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough is replaced by
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde as the
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces .
[1]
Undated
Publications
Prose
Francis Atterbury , Representation of the State of Religion
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury , Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
Daniel Defoe
The British Visions
An Essay on the History of Parties
An Essay on the South-Sea Trade
The Present State of the Parties in Great Britain (attributed)
The Secret History of the October Club
John Dennis , Reflections Critical and Satyrical, Upon a Late Rhapsody call'd, An Essay upon Criticism (Dennis's counterattack on Alexander Pope)
Poetry and Songs
Births
7 May –
David Hume , philosopher (died 1776)
19 August –
Edward Boscawen , admiral (died 1761)
1 September –
William Boyce , composer (died 1779)
22 September –
Thomas Wright , astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist (died 1786)
26 September –
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple , politician (died 1779)
5 November – Catherine Raftor, later
Kitty Clive , actress (died 1785)
Deaths
See also
References
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a
b
c Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ Ross, David (2002). Chronology of Scottish History . New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset.
ISBN
1-85534-380-0 .
^
"The Witney Blanket Weavers' Company" . Witney Blanket Story . Retrieved 2022-07-05 .
^
"Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750" . Archived from
the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24 .
^
"Royal Charters, Privy Council website" . Archived from
the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24 .
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 208–209.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^ Campbell, James W. P. (2007). Building St Paul's . London: Thames and Hudson. p. 161.
ISBN
978-0-500-34244-2 .
^ 9 Anne cap 17.
^
a
b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
^
"Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)" , article, The Burns Encyclopedia , online edition, retrieved July 1, 2009.
Archived 2010-07-14 at the
Wayback Machine 2009-07-21.