1722 in Great Britain
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1722 in Great Britain:

Other years

1720 | 1721 | 1722 | 1723 | 1724

Sport

1722 English cricket season

Events from the year 1722 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George I of Great Britain
• Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig

Events

• 17 October - Habeas Corpus Act suspended following the discovery of a Jacobite plot by Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, in support of the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart.^[1]

Undated

• Construction begins of Senate House at the University of Cambridge, designed by James Gibbs.^[1]

Publications

• Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders.^[1]

Births

• 26 January - Alexander Carlyle, church leader (died 1805)
• April - Joseph Warton, poet and critic (died 1800)
• 11 April - Christopher Smart, poet (died 1771)
• 16 July - Joseph Wilton, sculptor (died 1803)
• 11 August - Richard Brocklesby, physician (died 1797)
• 16 September - Gabriel Christie, general (died 1799)
• 22 September - John Home, dramatist (died 1808)
• 5 November - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, dueler (died 1798)
• 30 December - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1770)
• date unknown - Flora MacDonald, Jacobite (died 1790)

Deaths

• 20 January - Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester (born c. 1656)
• 21 January - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, supporter of William III of England (born 1661)
• 10 February - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate (born 1682)
• 19 April - Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, statesman (born c. 1674)
• 16 June - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, general (born 1650)

References

See also