| 1653 |
River Wey
opens to barge traffic |
|
| Samuel
Johnson Born |
1709 |
Abraham
Darby converts 1st furnace |
| Laurence
Sterne born |
1713 |
|
| Lancelot
"Capability"
Brown born |
1715 |
|
| Joshua
Reynolds born |
1723 |
|
| Robert
Adam born |
1728 |
Matthew Boulton born |
| Josiah
Wedgwood born |
1730 |
|
| William
Cowper (poet and hymn writer) born |
1731 |
Erasmus Darwin born |
| Joseph
Haydn born |
1732 |
Richard Arkwright born |
| 1733 |
Joseph
Priestley born |
|
| Joseph
Wright of Derby born |
1734 |
|
| Rob
Roy dies |
1735 |
|
| Witchcraft
no longer a crime |
1736 |
James Watt
born |
| Construction
of Radcliffe Camera begun in Oxford |
1737 |
Harrison's
first chronometer |
| John
Wesley's conversion |
1738 |
|
| Rule
Britannia composed (Arne) |
1740 |
|
| 1741 |
Harrison's
second chronometer William Withering born |
|
| First
performance Handel's "Messiah" |
1742 |
|
| Stourhead
gardens begun |
1743 |
Edmund Cartwirght born |
| War
with France 1st recorded cricket match |
1744 |
|
| Jonathan
Swift dies Hogarth's "Marriage a la Mode" Jacobite Rebellion |
1745 |
|
| Battle
of Culloden |
1746 |
|
| Glasse's
"Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy" |
1747 |
|
| 1748 |
Excavations
begun at Pompeii |
|
| Fielding's
"Tom Jones" |
1749 |