1719 in Great Britain:

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1719 English cricket season

Events from the year 1719 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George I of Great Britain

[edit] Events

• 28 April - a Peerage Bill, proposed by Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, to prevent the creation of peers in the House of Lords is defeated in the House of Commons.^[1]
• 10 June - British Government forces defeat an alliance of Jacobite and Spanish forces at the Battle of Glen Shiel in Scotland.^[1]

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• The South Sea Company proposes a scheme by which it would buy more than half the national debt of Britain in exchange for concessions.^[1]

[edit] Publications

• 25 April - Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.^[1]

[edit] Births

• 23 January - John Landen, mathematician (died 1790)
• 13 February - George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (died 1792)
• 4 March - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, governor of Madras (died 1777)
• 13 March - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, field marshal (died 1797)
• 30 May - Roger Newdigate, politician (died 1806)
• 11 August - George Augustus Selwyn, Member of Parliament (died 1791)

[edit] Deaths

• 18 January - Samuel Garth, physician and poet (born 1661)
• 17 June - Joseph Addison, politician and writer (born 1672)
• 7 September - John Harris (writer), writer (born c.1666)
• 27 September - George Smalridge, Bishop of Bristol (born 1662)
• 26 November - John Hudson, classical scholar (born 1662)
• 31 December - John Flamsteed, astronomer (born 1646)

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