- 1723 in Great Britain
Events from the year
1723 in theKingdom of Great Britain .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George I of Great Britain
*Prime Minister -Robert Walpole , WhigEvents
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8 March - TheChelsea Waterworks Company receives aRoyal Charter . [cite web|url=http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page44.asp|title=Royal Charters, Privy Council website|accessdate=2007-08-24]
* June -Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke receives a pardon for his part in theJacobite Rebellion and is allowed to return to Britain, but not to sit in theHouse of Lords .citebook|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8]
*10 October -Treaty of Charlottenburg signed withPrussia . ["1723." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 10 Jun, 2007]Undated
* Parliament passes the
Workhouse Test Act . [cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750|accessdate=2007-08-24]
* Parliament passes theBlack Act making poaching acapital offence . [cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|title=BBC History British History Timeline|accessdate=2007-09-03]Births
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23 February -Richard Price , philosopher (died 1791)
*24 February -John Burgoyne , general (died 1792)
*5 March -Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1772)
*20 June
**Adam Ferguson , philosopher and historian (died 1816)
**Theophilus Lindsey , theologian (died 1808)
*10 July -William Blackstone , jurist (died 1780)
*16 July -Sir Joshua Reynolds , painter (died 1792)
*8 November -John Byron , admiral (died 1786)Unknown dates
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Adam Smith , economist and philosopher (died 1790)Deaths
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25 February -Sir Christopher Wren , architect, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1632)
*26 February -Thomas d'Urfey , writer (born 1653)
*31 March -Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon , Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661)
*11 April - John Robinson, diplomat (born 1650)
*26 July -Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven , statesman (born 1660)
*17 August -Joseph Bingham , scholar (born 1668)
*10 October -William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper ,Lord Chancellor (born c.1665)
*19 October -Godfrey Kneller , painter (born1646 , Lübeck)
*1 December -Susanna Centlivre , dramatist and actress (born 1669)References
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