1723 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1723 English cricket season

Events from the year 1723 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George I of Great Britain
• Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig

Events

• 8 March - The Chelsea Waterworks Company receives a Royal Charter.^[1]
• May - Parliament passes the Black Act making poaching a capital offence.^[2]
• June - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke receives a pardon for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion and is allowed to return to Britain, but not to sit in the House of Lords.^[3]
• 10 October - Treaty of Charlottenburg signed with Prussia.^[4]

Undated

• Parliament passes the Workhouse Test Act.^[5]

Births

• 23 February - Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
• 24 February - John Burgoyne, general (died 1792)
• 5 March - Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1772)
• June - Adam Smith, economist and philosopher (died 1790)
• 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)

Deaths

• 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 (born 1646, L beck)
• 1 December - Susanna Centlivre, dramatist and actress (born 1669)

References

See also