1722 in Great Britain

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.citebook|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=298]

Undated

* Construction begins of Senate House at the University of Cambridge, designed by James Gibbs.

Publications

* Daniel Defoe's novel "Moll Flanders".

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

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