1753 in Great Britain

1753 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1753 English cricket season

Events from the year 1753 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George II
• Prime Minister - Henry Pelham (Whig)

Events

• 29 January - After a month's absence, Elizabeth Canning returns to her mother's home in London and claims that she was abducted. The following criminal trial causes uproar.
• 7 June - The British Museum is established in London by Act of Parliament.
• July - Parliament passes Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act "for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage" in England and Wales, requiring marriages to be performed by licensed ministers and the reading of banns of marriage; it comes into effect in 1754.
• 7 July - Parliament's Jewish Naturalization Act, a measure to end discrimination against Jews, receives royal assent, but widespread opposition leads to its repeal in 1754.

Undated

• First stage of Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival 'Castle' at Strawberry Hill in London completed.

Publications

• Jane Collier's satirical An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting.
• James Lind's A Treatise of the Scurvy.
• David Hume's Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects.
• Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison.

Births

• 8 March - William Roscoe, writer (died 1831)
• 27 March - Andrew Bell, educationist and priest (died 1832)
• 9 July - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (died 1825)
• 12 August - Thomas Bewick, wood engraver (died 1828)
• 10 September - John Soane, architect (died 1837)
• 22 November - Dugald Stewart, philosopher (died 1828)
• 3 December - Samuel Crompton, inventor (died 1827)
• 12 December - William Beechey, portrait-painter (died 1839)
• Edward Pigott, astronomer (died 1825)

Deaths

• 11 January - Hans Sloane, physician and collector (born 1660 in Ireland)
• 14 January - George Berkeley, philosopher (born 1685 in Ireland)
• 7 June - Archibald Cameron of Locheil, last Jacobite to be executed for treason (born 1707)
• 27 September - Sir John Anstruther, 1st Baronet, of Anstruther, Scottish politician (born c.1678)
• December - Thomas Melvill, Scottish meteorologist and philosopher (born 1726)
• 15 December - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, architect (born 1694)
• 25 December - Godolphin Arabian, thoroughbred stallion (born c.1724)
• William Wishart, Principal of Edinburgh University (born c.1692)