1762 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1762 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George III
- Prime Minister - Duke of Newcastle (Whig) (until 26 May), Earl of Bute (Tory) (starting 26 May)
Events
- January - The "Cock Lane ghost" appears in London.
- 4 January - Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.[1]
- 10 March - Seven Years' War - Britain captures Grenada from France.[2]
- May - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne resigns and is succeeded as Prime Minister by John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute,[1] the first Scottish Prime Minister of Great Britain; a large number of Newcastle's 'Old Corps Whig' followers are dismissed from public office in the following months in what is known facetiously as the "Massacre of the Pelhamite Innocents".[3]
- 22 May - Royal family first takes up residence at Buckingham House.[2]
- 5 June - John Wilkes founds the radical newspaper The North Briton.
- 24 June - Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Wilhelmsthal, the Anglo-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats the French forces in Westphalia. The British commander Lord Granby distinguishes himself.
- mid-July–24 November - Seven Years' War: British troops reinforce the Portuguese to resist the Invasion of Portugal by Spain.[4]
- 13 August - Seven Years' War: The Battle of Havana concludes after more than two months with the surrender of Havana to Britain by Spain.[1]
- September - Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships is founded in London. The world's oldest mutual insurer, it pioneers age-based premiums based on the mortality rate.[1][5]
- 15 September - French and Indian War: Battle of Signal Hill is fought between France and Britain in North America.
- 24 September–6 October - Seven Years' War: Battle of Manila fought between Great Britain and Spain resulting in the British occupation of the Philippines until 1764. The British take Manila and make it an Open Port.[1]
Undated
- Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Scottish Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.[6]
- Building of the Plymouth Synagogue, the oldest built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English-speaking world.[7]
- The last remaining buildings are cleared from London Bridge.[8]
Publications
- William Williams Pantycelyn's Mor o Wydr (including "Gweddi am Nerth i fyned trwy anialwch y Byd", the Welsh original of the hymn "Cwm Rhondda").
- Laurence Sterne's collected sermons The Sermons of Mr. Yorick.
- James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's architectural treatise Antiquities of Athens.
Births
- 31 January - Lachlan Macquarie, Scottish-born British Army officer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1824)
- 12 February - Solomon Hirschell, chief rabbi of the United Kingdom (died 1842)
- 17 March (bapt.) - William Dawes, Royal Marines officer and colonial administrator (died 1836)
- 12 August - King George IV of the United Kingdom (died 1830)
- 11 September - Joanna Baillie, Scottish-born poet and dramatist (died 1851)
- 24 September - William Lisle Bowles, poet and critic (died 1850)
- 21 October - George Colman the Younger, dramatist and miscellaneous writer (died 1836)
- 1 November - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated 1812)
Deaths
- 3 February - Beau Nash, dandy (born 1674)
- 23 June - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis (died 1700)
- 13 July - James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (born 1693)
- 28 July - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (born 1691)
- 21 August - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (born 1689)
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