1732 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1732 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George II of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig

Events

* 7 December - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]

Undated

* Secession Church formed in Scotland.cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|publisher=Chapman and Hall|author=William L. R. Cates|year=1863]
* First performance in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Esther".citebook|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8]

Births

* 19 February - Richard Cumberland, dramatist (died 1811)
* 13 April - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (died 1792)
* 6 October - Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (died 1811)
* 6 December - Warren Hastings, administrator (died 1818)
* 23 December - Richard Arkwright, inventor (died 1792)

Deaths

* 12 January - John Horsley, archaeologist (born c.1685)
* 22 February - Francis Atterbury, bishop and man of letters (born 1663)
* 20 May - Thomas Boston, church leader (born 1676)
* 16 July - Woodes Rogers, privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (born c.1679)
* 4 December - John Gay, poet and dramatist (born 1685)

References

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