1700-1749 | 1750-1799 | All Timelines
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
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
1727 to 1760 George II
1760 to 1830 George III
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
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.
The barn fulfilled its role as a barn during this period.
