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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1751
Events from the year
1751 in
Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
-
25 March – legally
New Year's Day for the last time in
England and Wales.
-
31 March –
Frederick, Prince of Wales dies at Leicester House, London from a lung injury and is succeeded by his son the future
George III of the United Kingdom as heir apparent to the throne; three weeks later George is made Prince of Wales.
[2] George's mother,
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, becomes Dowager Princess of Wales.
- April – the
Gin Act requires government inspection of
distilleries and restricts sale to licensed premises.
[3]
-
27 May –
adoption of the Gregorian calendar:
royal assent is given to
An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use (the "Calendar Act") passed by
Parliament, introducing the
Gregorian Calendar, correcting the eleven-day difference between
Old Style and New Style dates and making
1 January legally New Year's Day from
1752 in the British Empire.
[2]
[4] It is largely promoted by
George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield.
-
4 June –
Dr John Wall and partners establish a
porcelain factory in
Worcester, "The Worcester Tonquin Manufactory", the origin of
Royal Worcester.
[5]
[6]
-
31 August –
Robert Clive takes the
Indian town of
Arcot from the
French.
[2]
-
20 October –
Charles, Duke of Bolton, marries celebrated actress
Lavinia Fenton, already the mother of his three children.
-
3 December –
Battle of Arnee:
Robert Clive defeats a Franco-Indian force.
Undated
Publications
Births
Deaths
-
20 January –
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, politician (born
1665)
-
29 March –
Thomas Coram, sea captain and philanthropist (born c.
1668)
-
31 March
-
9 June –
John Machin, mathematician and astronomer (b. c.1686)
-
22 August –
Andrew Gordon, Scottish-born Benedictine monk, physicist and inventor (born
1712)
-
2 October –
Thomas Mathews, Welsh admiral (born
1676)
-
26 October –
Philip Doddridge, nonconformist religious leader (born
1702)
-
12 December –
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, statesman and philosopher (born
1678)
-
17 December –
Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet, Governor of Virginia (born
1681)
-
19 December –
Louise of Great Britain, English-born queen of
Frederick V of Denmark (born
1724)
See also
References