1745 in Great Britain

Great Britain-related events during the year of 1745

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Events from the year 1745 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

Events

  • 30 April–11 May – War of the Austrian Succession: British forces defeated at the Battle of Fontenoy.[2]
  • 16 June – King George's War: British capture Cape Breton Island in North America from the French.[2]
  • 26 June – the earliest known women's cricket match, at Gosden Common in Surrey.[3]
  • 9 July (20 July NS) – Jacobite rising: The Du Teillay, carrying the Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart from France to Scotland, and her escort L'Elisabeth engage with HMS Lion in the English Channel.
  • 23 July – Jacobite rising: Charles Stuart lands on Eriskay in the Hebrides in Scotland.[2]
  • 15–26 August – War of the Austrian Succession: By the Convention of Hanover, King George II makes peace overtures to Prussia and ends support for Austria.[2]
  • 16 August – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at Highbridge Skirmish.
  • 19 August – Jacobite rising: Charles Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan.
  • 11 September – Jacobite rising: Jacobites enter Edinburgh.[2]
  • 16 September – Jacobite rising: "Canter of Coltbrigg": The 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites near Edinburgh.
  • 17 September – Jacobite rising: in Edinburgh, Charles Stuart proclaims his father James Francis Edward Stuart as James VIII of Scotland.[2]
  • 21 September – Jacobite rising: Government forces are defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans.[4]
  • 28 September – the song later to become the British national anthem "God Save the King" is first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in a setting by Thomas Arne.[4]
  • 13–15 November – Jacobite rising: Jacobites besiege and capture Carlisle.
  • December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite garrison in Carlisle surrenders to Hanoverian forces under Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.
  • 4 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces reach Derby causing panic in London.[2]
  • 6 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces decide to retreat to Scotland.[2]
  • 18 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Clifton Moor Skirmish,[2] the last action between two military forces on English soil.[5]
  • 23 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Battle of Inverurie.

Undated

Publications

Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. ^ "History of Henry Pelham - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 310–311. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  3. ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 217–218. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. ^ a b Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  5. ^ Unless the Battle of Graveney Marsh (1940) is counted.
  6. ^ "middle class, n. and adj.". Oxford English Dictionary online version. Oxford University Press. March 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2012. (subscription or participating institution membership required)
  7. ^ Bradshaw, James (1745). A scheme to prevent the running of Irish wools to France: and Irish woollen goods to foreign countries. By prohibiting the importation of Spanish wools into Ireland, ... Humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament. By a Merchant of London. London: printed for J. Smith, and G. Faulkner. pp. 4–5.
  8. ^ "Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford | prime minister of Great Britain". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 September 2021.