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Timeline 1750-1799

1700-1749 | 1750-1799 | All Timelines
National Events

1750 – Scottish landlords start evicting tenants in the Highland Clearances

May 1756 – Seven Years’ War between Britain and France begins

April 1763 – Radical journalist John Wilkes is arrested for criticising the king

1768 – 1771 – Captain James Cook leads his first expedition to the Pacific

1771 – ‘Factory Age’ begins with the opening of Britain’s first cotton mill

22 June 1772 – Slavery is effectively outlawed in England

16 December 1773 – ‘Boston Tea Party’ heightens tensions in North American colonies

1774 – Methodist John Wesley publishes ‘Thoughts Upon Slavery’

18 April 1775 – American War of Independence begins

1779 – Penitentiary Act authorises state prisons

13 May 1787 – First fleet of convicts sails to Australia

1 January 1788 – First edition of ‘The Times’ of London is published

14 July 1789 – French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille

19 April 1791 – Parliament rejects William Wilberforce’s bill to abolish the slave trade

1 February 1793 Britain goes to war with France

1799 – 1800 Trade unions are outlawed

Local Events

Weather

1751 to 1760 – In England, the summers of this period were the wettest in a record that began in 1697

1763 to 1772 – These years experienced wet summers

1765 to1768 – Cold winters

1778 to 1800 – Generally dry hot years with some notable wet years / summers

Monarchy

1727 to 1760 George II

1760 to 1830 George III

Prime Ministers

1743 to 1754 Henry Pelham – Whig

1754 to 1756 Thomas Pelham-Holles (1st time) – Whig

1756 to 1757 William Cavendish – Whig

1757 to 1762 Thomas Pelham-Holles (2nd time) – Whig

1762 to 1763 John Stuart – Tory

1763 to 1765 George Grenville – Whig

1765 to 1766 Charles Watson Wentworth (1st time) – Whig

1766 to 1768 William Pitt, the Elder – Whig

1768 to 1770 Augustus Henry Fitzroy – Whig

1770 to 1782 Frederick North – Tory

1782 Charles Watson Wentworth (2nd time) – Whig

1782 to 1783 William Petty-Fitzmaurice – Whig

1783 William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1st time) – Whig

1783 to 1801 William Pitt, the Younger (1st time) – Tory

Rectors

St Mary – East Worlington

1745 Richard Bryan M.A.

1780 William Woolcoombe B.A

1796 Benjamin Clay M.A

1852 Richard Syndercombe Bryan B.A

St Mary – West Worlington

1750 William Hatheley M.A.

1782 Lewis Buck D.C.L.

1783 William Smith M.A.

1804 Joseph Prust Prust jnr. B.A.

Parish Hall

The barn fulfilled its role as a barn during this period.

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