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Sarah SEABURY

Female 1718 - 1802  (84 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1719 
  • 1719: South Sea Bubble bursts, leaving many investors ruined after speculating with stock of the 'South Sea Company'
2 1721 
  • 1721: Sir Robert Walpole Prime Minister to 1742 (Whig)
  • 1721: Sir Robert Walpole returns to government as First Lord of the Treasury. He remains in office until 1742 and effectively becomes Britain's first Prime Minister
3 1722 
  • 1722: First written reference to Stilton cheese in William Stukeley's Itinerarium Curiosum, letter V
  • 1722: Death of the Duke of Marlborough. The Jacobite 'Atterbury Plot' is hatched
4 1726 
  • 1726: First circulating library in Britain opens in Edinburgh. Jonathan Swift publishes his 'Gulliver's Travels'
5 1727 
  • 1727: Death of Sir Isaac Newton and of King George I (in Hanover). The latter is succeeded by his son as King George II
  • 1727: The Gentleman's Magazine', first modern magazine, published
6 1728 
  • 1728: Pierre Fauchard, in 'The Surgeon Dentist', described preventive measures to keep teeth healthy as well as inventing the word 'dentist.'
7 1729 
  • 1729: Alexander Pope publishes his ' Dunciad'
8 1730 
  • 1730: A split occurs between Walpole and Townshend
9 1732 
  • 1732: A royal charter is granted for the founding of Georgia in America
10 1733 
  • 1733: The 'Excise Crisis' occurs and Walpole is forced to abandon his plans to reorganise the customs and excise
11 1736 
  • 1736: John Harrison finished building and tested at sea what proved to be the first accurate chronometer for timing longitude
12 1737 
  • 1737: Death of King George II's wife, Queen Caroline
13 1738 
  • 1738: John and Charles Wesley start the Methodist movement in Britain
14 1739 
  • 1739: Britain goes to war with Spain in the 'War of Jenkins' Ear'. The cause: Captain Jenkins' ear was claimed to have been cut off during a Naval Skirmish
15 1740 
  • 1740: Commencement of the War of Austrian Succession in Europe
16 1742 
  • 1742: Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington Prime Minister until 1743 (Whig)
  • 1742: Beginning with a bull calf from the cow 'Silver' and two cows, 'Pidgeon' and 'Mottle' (inherited from his father's estate), Benjamin Tomkins is credited with founding the Hereford breed.
  • 1742: Walpole resigns as Prime Minister
17 1743 
  • 1743: Henry Pelham Prime Minister until 1754 (Whig)
  • 1743: George II leads British troops into battle at Dettingen in Bavaria
18 1744 
  • 1744: Ministry of Pelham
19 1745 
  • 1745: Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland led by 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'. There is a Scottish victory at Prestonpans
20 1746 
  • 1746: The Duke of Cumberland crushes the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden
21 1747 
  • 1747: Yorkshire pudding mentioned in recipes
22 1748 
  • 1748: The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle brings the War of Austrian Succession to a close
23 1750 
  • 1750: The grapefruit was first described by Griffith Hughes as the "forbidden fruit" of Barbados
24 1751 
  • 1751: Benjamin Franklin published 'Experiments and Observations on Electricity' after several years of experiments done with several friends. In this book Franklin suggested an experiment to prove that lightning is a large-scale electrical discharge, a task which later he took upon himself, using a kite. This led to the invention of the lightning rod.
  • 1751: Death of Frederick, Prince of Wales. His son, Prince George, becomes heir to the throne
25 1752 
  • 1752: James Lind called attention to the value of fresh fruit in the prevention of scurvy
  • 1752: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur showed by experiment that gastric juice liquifies meat.
  • 1752: Adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in Britain
26 1753 
  • 1753: Parliament passes the Jewish Naturalization Bill
27 1754 
  • 1754: The ministry of Newcastle
28 1755 
  • 1755: Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language published
29 1756 
  • 1756: Mayonnaise invented to commemorate a victory at the start of the Seven Years War, the successful seige of English-held St. Philip's Castle
  • 1756: Britain, allied with Prussia, declares war against France and her allies, Austria and Russia. The Seven Years' War begins
30 1757 
  • 1757: The Pitt-Newcastle ministry. Robert Clive wins the Battle of Plassey and secures the Indian province of Bengal for Britain. William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
31 1759 
  • 1759: Wolfe captures Quebec and expels the French from Canada
32 1760 
  • 1760: Death of King George II. He is succeeded by his grandson as George III
33 1761 
  • 1761: Laurence Sterne publishes his 'Tristram Shandy'
34 1762 
  • 1762: John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, 'created' the Sandwich. This Englishman was said to have been fond of gambling and, during a 24 hour gambling streak, he instructed a cook to prepare his food in such a way that it would not interfere with his game. The cook presented him with sliced meat between two pieces of toast. Perfect! This meal required no utensils and could be eaten with one hand, leaving the other free to continue the game.
  • 1762: The Earl of Bute is appointed Prime Minister. He becomes very unpopular and employs a bodyguard
  • 1762: L'Académie Francaise recognises term 'millionaire'
35 1763 
  • 1763: Peace of Paris ends the Seven Years' War. Grenville ministry.
36 1764 
  • 1764: James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny
37 1765 
  • 1765: Rockingham ministry. The American Stamp Act raises taxes in the colonies in an attempt to make their defence self-financing
  • 1765: Earliest known children's pop-up book
38 1766 
  • 1766: Chatham ministry. Repeal of the American Stamp Act
39 1768 
  • 1768: Grafton ministry. The Middlesex Election Crisis occurs
40 1769 
  • 1769: James Watt patented a new type of steam engine with a separate condensing chamber and an air pump to bring steam into the chamber and equipped it with a simple 'governor' for safety: if the engine started to go too fast, the power would be automatically cut back. He coined the term 'horsepower' and later loaned his name to the unit of power, or work, done per unit of time
  • 1769: Captain James Cook's first voyage to explore the Pacific begins
41 1770 
  • 1770: Lord North begins service as Prime Minister. The Falkland Island Crisis occurs. Edmund Burke publishes his 'Thoughts on the Present Discontents'
  • 1770: James Cook documents the location of Australia
  • 1770: Gum pencil eraser invented
42 1771 
  • 1771: The Encyclopedia Britannica is first published
43 1773 
  • 1773: American colonists protest at the East India Company's monopoly over tea exports to the colonies, at the so-called 'Boston Tea Party'. The World's first cast-iron bridge is constructed over the River Severn at Coalbrookdale
44 1774 
  • 1774: Franz Anton Mesmer began the psychotherapeutic practive of hypnotism, which he called 'animal magnetism' and conceived it to be an actual fluid. Apparently he had some success with psychosomatic illnesses. Part of his technique seems to have been used earlier by exorcists.
  • 1774: Parliament passes the Coercive Acts in retaliation for the 'Boston Tea Party'
45 1775 
  • 1775: American War of Independence begins when colonists fight British troops at Lexington.
46 1776 
  • 1776: Adam Smith, in 'The Wealth of Nations', advanced the idea that businesses survive through successful trading in pursuit of their self-interest, and that the resulting equilibrium was not by design.
  • 1776: On 4 JUL, the American Congress passes their Declaration of Independence from Britain. Edward Gibbons' publishes his 'Decline and Fall'
47 1778 
  • 1778: Cook explores Hawaiian Islands. He fails to locate Northwest Passage from Alaskan side and is killed in Hawaii the following year
48 1779 
  • 1779: The rise of Wyvill's Association Movement
49 1780 
  • 1780: The Gordon Riots develop from a procession to petition parliament against the Catholic Relief Act
50 1781 
  • 1781: Frederick William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus by its movement, although at the time he supposed it to be a comet
  • 1781: The Americans obtain a great victory of British troops at the surrender of Yorktown
51 1782 
  • 1782: End of Lord North's time as Prime Minister. He is succeeded by Rockingham in his second ministry. Ireland obtains short-lived parliament
52 1783 
  • 1783: William Bentinck, Duke of Portland Prime minister (Whig)
  • 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier invented the first practical hot air balloon.
  • 1783: Shelburne's ministry, followed by that of William Pitt the Younger. Britain recognises American independence at the Peace of Versailles. Fox-North coalition established
53 1784 
  • 1784: Parliament passes the East India Act
  • 1784: First edition of 'The Times' newspaper
54 1785 
  • 1785: Pitt's motion for Parliamentary Reform is defeated
55 1786 
  • 1786: The Eden commercial treaty with France is drawn up
56 1788 
  • 1788: George III suffers his first attack of 'madness' (caused by porphyria)
57 1789 
  • 1789: Outbreak of the French Revolution
58 1790 
  • 1790: Edmund Burke publishes his 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'
59 1791 
  • 1791: The 'Celerifere', an early version of the bicycle, was built around by Comte Mede de Sivrac. It was basically a scooter with a high seat
  • 1791: James Boswell publishes his 'Life of Johnson' an Thomas Paine, his 'Rights of Man'
60 1792 
  • 1792: Volta discovered he could arrange metals in a series in such a way that chemical energy is converted into electrical energy; that is, two dissimilar metals are submerged in an electrolyte and connected by an circuit and thereby exchange electrons. By 1800, he had invented the so-called voltaic cell, a pile of such metals "consisting of pairs of silver and zinc disks separated by pieces of moist cardboard"
  • 1792: Coal gas is used for lighting for the first time. Mary Wollstonecraft publishes her 'Vindication of the Rights of Women'
61 1793 
  • 1793: Outbreak of War between Britain and France. The voluntary Board of Agriculture is set up. Commercial depression throughout Britain
  • 1793: Speculative 'Canal Bubble' in UK bursts
62 1794 
  • 1794: Erasmus Darwin, Charles' grandfather, proposed that "warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament...possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering those improvements by generation to its posterity."
  • 1794: Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin
  • 1794: Metric system introduced in France
63 1795 
  • 1795: The 'Speenhamland' system of outdoor relief is adopted, making wages up to equal the cost of subsistence
64 1796 
  • 1796: Edward Jenner investigated the folk tale that milk maids were immune to small pox, the virus variola major, and in a brief series of experiments confirmed that exposure to cow pox, the virus vaccinia, rendered immunity
65 1798 
  • 1798: Thomas Robert Malthus, in his Essay on the Principle of Population, contended that population increses by a geometric ratio whereas the means of subsistence increase by an arithmetic ratio.
  • 1798: Introduction of a tax of ten percent on incomes over £200.
66 1799 
  • 1799: Trade Unions are suppressed. Napoleon is appointed First Consul in France
  • 1799: Three-year commercial boom in Britain begins
67 1800 
  • 1800: Act of Union with Ireland unites Parliaments of England and Ireland
68 1801 
  • 1801: Close of Pitt the Younger's Ministry. The first British Census is undertaken
69 1802 
  • 1802: Peace with France is established. Peel introduces the first factory legislation

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