1784 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1784 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

Events

* 28 February - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 15 April - General election won by William Pitt the Younger's Tory Party.
* 21 June - Commutation Act 1784 reduces duties on spirits and tea, and implements window tax.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 228-230|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 2 August - the first mail coach runs between Bristol and London.
* 13 August - Parliament passes the India Act to regulate the East India Company.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=336–337]
* 16 August - Britain creates the colony of New Brunswick in Canada.
* 15 September - The Italian Vincenzo Lunardi makes the first hydrogen balloon ascent in Britain.

Undated

* Henry Cavendish's paper "Experiments on Air" reveals the composition of water. [ "Experiments on Air". By Henry Cavendish, Esq. F.R.S. and A.S., 1784, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 75, pp. 372-384]

Births

* 28 January - George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1860)
* 31 January - Bernard Barton, poet (died 1849)
* 20 October - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister (died 1865)
* October - Sarah Biffen, painter (died 1850)

Deaths

* 10 August - Allan Ramsay, painter (born 1713)
* 13 December - Samuel Johnson, writer and lexicographer (born 1709)

References

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