1748 in Great Britain
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1748 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1748 English cricket season

Events from the year 1748 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George II of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Henry Pelham, Whig

Events

• 28 March - a fire in the City of London causes over a million pounds worth of damage.^[1]
• August - Admiral Edward Boscawen commands a Royal Navy siege of Pondicherry.^[2]
• 18 October - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession, by which Madras in India is restored to British rule in exchange for the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada with France.^[3]

Undated

• Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.
• Henry Fielding organises the forerunner of the Bow Street Runners with eight men at first.^[2]
• John Fothergill's pamphlet entitled Account of the Sore Throat attended with Ulcers contains the first description of diphtheria.^[2]

Publications

• Tobias Smollett's novel The Adventures of Roderick Random.^[2]
• Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa.^[2]
• James Thomson's poem The Castle of Indolence, shortly before his death.^[2]
• An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by philosopher David Hume.

Births

• 15 February - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and writer (died 1832)
• 5 March - William Shield, violinist and composer (died 1829)
• 10 March - John Playfair, scientist (died 1819)
• 13 April - Joseph Bramah, inventor and locksmith (died 1814)
• 28 May - Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (died 1825)
• 14 December - William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (died 1811)
• Date unknown - James Sayers, caricaturist (died 1823)

Deaths

• 14 March - George Wade, military leader (born 1673, Ireland)
• 12 April - William Kent, architect, landscape architect and furniture designer (born c. 1685)
• 12 May - Thomas Lowndes, astronomer (born 1692)
• 27 August - James Thomson, poet (born 1700)
• 6 September - Edmund Gibson, jurist (born 1669)
• 12 September - Anne Bracegirdle, actress (born c.1671)
• 21 September - John Balguy, philosopher (born 1686)
• 25 November - Isaac Watts, hymn writer (born 1674)
• 2 December - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, politician (born 1662)

References

See also