1784 in Great Britain
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1784 in Great Britain:

Other years

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Sport

1784 English cricket season

Events from the year 1784 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

Events

• 28 February - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.^[1]
• 15 April - General election won by William Pitt the Younger's Tory Party.^[2]
• 21 June - Commutation Act 1784 reduces duties on spirits and tea, and implements window tax.^[2]
• 2 August - the first mail coach runs between Bristol and London.^[1]
• 13 August - Parliament passes the India Act to regulate the East India Company.^[3]
• 16 August - Britain creates the colony of New Brunswick in Canada.
• 15 September - The Italian Vincenzo Lunardi makes the first hydrogen balloon ascent in Britain.^[1]

Births

• 28 January - George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1860)
• 31 January - Bernard Barton, poet (died 1849)
• 20 October - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister (died 1865)
• October - Sarah Biffen, painter (died 1850)

Deaths

• 10 August - Allan Ramsay, painter (born 1713)
• 13 December - Samuel Johnson, writer and lexicographer (born 1709)

References

See also