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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1769
Events from the year
1769 in
Great Britain . This year sees several key events in the
Industrial Revolution .
Incumbents
Events
21 January – first of the
Letters of Junius , criticising the government, appears in the
Public Advertiser .
[2]
February–April –
John Wilkes is expelled from
Parliament three times.
23 March –
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton , the Prime Minister, and his wife,
Anne , are divorced; on 24 June the Duke remarries.
8 April – the
Theatre Royal, York , reopens under this title having been granted a Royal Patent.
[3] (The manager,
Tate Wilkinson , also obtains a patent for his theatre in
Hull .)
13 April –
first voyage of James Cook :
James Cook arrives in
Tahiti on the ship
HM Bark Endeavour , preparing to observe the
transit of the planet
Venus , which takes place on 3 June.
[4] After the voyage, the data is found to be inaccurate in determining the distance between the
Sun and
Earth .
25 April–27 May – first
Royal Academy summer exhibition held.
29 April –
James Watt is granted a British
patent for "A method of lessening the consumption of steam in
steam engines " – the separate condenser,
[5] a key improvement (first devised by Watt in 1765) which stimulates the
Industrial Revolution .
[2]
3 & 29 May –
Eclipse runs his first races, giving rise to the phrase "Eclipse first and the rest nowhere."
13 June –
Josiah Wedgwood opens his
Etruria Works for the manufacture of pottery.
28 June –
The Morning Chronicle newspaper begins publication in London.
3 July –
Richard Arkwright patents a
spinning frame able to weave fabric mechanically.
[6]
5–7 September –
actor-manager
David Garrick stages a
Shakespeare Jubilee festival in
Stratford-upon-Avon , disrupted by rain and with no performances of
Shakespeare 's works.
[7]
7 October – James Cook reaches
New Zealand .
[2]
19 November –
Blackfriars Bridge across the
River Thames in
London opens to traffic.
[8]
Undated
Publications
Births
1 January –
Jane Marcet , science writer (died
1858 )
6 January –
Lord Charles Townshend , Member of Parliament (died
1796 )
2 March –
Walter Fawkes , writer and Member of Parliament (died
1825 )
4 March –
Ellen Sharples , painter (died
1849 )
23 March –
William Smith , geologist and cartographer (died
1839 )
3 April –
Josiah Wedgwood II , Member of Parliament (died
1843 )
5 April –
Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet , naval officer (died
1839 )
13 April –
Thomas Lawrence , painter (died
1830 )
14 April –
William Rae , Member of Parliament (died
1842 )
1 May –
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , general and
Prime Minister (died
1852 )
2 May –
John Malcolm , soldier, statesman and historian (died
1833 )
21 May –
John Hookham Frere , diplomat and author (died
1846 )
18 June –
Viscount Castlereagh , statesman, diplomat and soldier (suicide
1822 )
14 August –
Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore , noble (died
1793 )
10 September –
Charles Bullen , admiral (died
1853 )
19 September –
George Raper , naval officer and illustrator (died
1797 )
28 September –
John Jackson , boxer (died
1845 )
6 October –
Isaac Brock , general and administrator (died
1812 )
23 October –
James Ward , painter and engraver (died
1859 )
7 November –
William Sturges Bourne , politician (died
1845 )
12 November –
Amelia Opie , author (died
1853 )
13 December –
James Scarlett Abinger , judge (died
1844 )
23 December
date unknown
Deaths
See also
References
^
"History of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton - GOV.UK" . www.gov.uk . Retrieved 25 June 2023 .
^
a
b
c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 224–225.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^
"Theatre Royal – Tate Wilkinson as Manager" . York Guides . Archived from
the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2011-02-25 .
^
"Cook's Journal: Daily Entries, 13 April 1769" . Archived from
the original on 20 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-10 .
^ Patent 913; specification accepted January 5.
^
a
b Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p.
325 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Pierce, Patricia (2004).
The Great Shakespeare Fraud: the Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland . Stroud: Sutton Publishing.
ISBN
0-7509-3393-3 .
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^
"Gordon's Gin" . Retrieved 2010-11-15 .
^ Wilson, Carol (2005). "Wedding Cake: A Slice of History". Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture . 5 (2): 69–72.
doi :
10.1525/gfc.2005.5.2.69 .
JSTOR
10.1525/gfc.2005.5.2.69 .
^ Field, D. M. The World's Greatest Architecture Past & Present . p. 207.
^ The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Micropædia (15th ed.). 2002.
^
Birley, Robert (1962).
Sunk without Trace: some forgotten masterpieces reconsidered . London: Rupert Hart-Davis.