1719 in Great Britain

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

Incumbents

*Monarch - George I of Great Britain

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.
* 10 June - British Government forces defeat an alliance of Jacobite and Spanish forces at the Battle of Glen Shiel in Scotland.

Undated

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

Publications

* 25 April - Daniel Defoe's novel "Robinson Crusoe".citebook|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=297]

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)

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)

References

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