1723 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1723 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George I of Great Britain
*Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig

Events

* 8 March - The Chelsea Waterworks Company receives a Royal Charter. [cite web|url=http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page44.asp|title=Royal Charters, Privy Council website|accessdate=2007-08-24]
* June - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke receives a pardon for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion and is allowed to return to Britain, but not to sit in the House of Lords.citebook|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8]
* 10 October - Treaty of Charlottenburg signed with Prussia. ["1723." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 10 Jun, 2007]

Undated

* Parliament passes the Workhouse Test Act. [cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750|accessdate=2007-08-24]
* Parliament passes the Black Act making poaching a capital offence. [cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|title=BBC History British History Timeline|accessdate=2007-09-03]

Births

* 23 February - Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
* 24 February - John Burgoyne, general (died 1792)
* 5 March - Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1772)
* 20 June
** Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (died 1816)
** Theophilus Lindsey, theologian (died 1808)
* 10 July - William Blackstone, jurist (died 1780)
* 16 July - Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (died 1792)
* 8 November - John Byron, admiral (died 1786)

Unknown dates

* Adam Smith, economist and philosopher (died 1790)

Deaths

* 25 February - Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1632)
* 26 February - Thomas d'Urfey, writer (born 1653)
* 31 March - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661)
* 11 April - John Robinson, diplomat (born 1650)
* 26 July - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, statesman (born 1660)
* 17 August - Joseph Bingham, scholar (born 1668)
* 10 October - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor (born c.1665)
* 19 October - Godfrey Kneller, painter (born 1646, Lübeck)
* 1 December - Susanna Centlivre, dramatist and actress (born 1669)

References

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