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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Great Britain-related events during the year of 1724</div> <table class="infobox" width="350"> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Great_Britain_(1707%E2%80%931800).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/30px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/60px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <b>1724 in Great Britain:</b> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Great_Britain_(1707%E2%80%931800).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/30px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/60px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#f3f3f3"> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Other years</i></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"> <a href="/wiki/1722_in_Great_Britain" title="1722 in Great Britain">1722</a> | <a href="/wiki/1723_in_Great_Britain" title="1723 in Great Britain">1723</a> | <b>1724</b> | <a href="/wiki/1725_in_Great_Britain" title="1725 in Great Britain">1725</a> | <a href="/wiki/1726_in_Great_Britain" title="1726 in Great Britain">1726</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#f3f3f3"> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Sport</i></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/1697_to_1725_English_cricket_seasons#1724" class="mw-redirect" title="1697 to 1725 English cricket seasons">1724 English cricket season</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Events from the year <b><a href="/wiki/1724" title="1724">1724</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a></b>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Incumbents">Incumbents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1724_in_Great_Britain&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Incumbents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_British_monarchs" title="List of British monarchs">Monarch</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain" title="George I of Great Britain">George I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> – <a href="/wiki/Robert_Walpole" title="Robert Walpole">Robert Walpole</a> (<a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events">Events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1724_in_Great_Britain&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Blenheim_engraving.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Blenheim_engraving.jpg/200px-Blenheim_engraving.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Blenheim_engraving.jpg/300px-Blenheim_engraving.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Blenheim_engraving.jpg/400px-Blenheim_engraving.jpg 2x" data-file-width="794" data-file-height="371" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Blenheim_Palace" title="Blenheim Palace">Blenheim Palace</a> completed.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>20 February – <i><a href="/wiki/Giulio_Cesare" title="Giulio Cesare">Giulio Cesare in Egitto</a></i>, an <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">opera</a> by <a href="/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel" title="George Frideric Handel">George Frideric Handel</a>, is premiered in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>6 April – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pelham-Holles,_1st_Duke_of_Newcastle-upon-Tyne" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne">Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Southern_Department" title="Secretary of State for the Southern Department">Secretary of State for the Southern Department</a>; <a href="/wiki/Henry_Pelham" title="Henry Pelham">Henry Pelham</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/Secretary_at_War" title="Secretary at War">Secretary at War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cassell's_Chronology_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cassell's_Chronology-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>August – <a href="/wiki/Longman" title="Longman">Longman</a>, the oldest surviving <a href="/wiki/Publishing_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Publishing house">publishing house</a> in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, is founded in London by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Longman_(1699%E2%80%931755)" title="Thomas Longman (1699–1755)">Thomas Longman</a>.</li> <li>31 October – Handel's opera <i><a href="/wiki/Tamerlano" title="Tamerlano">Tamerlano</a></i> is premiered in London</li> <li>16 November – Thief <a href="/wiki/Jack_Sheppard" title="Jack Sheppard">Jack Sheppard</a> is hanged in London. (His partner-in-crime, highwayman <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Blake_(criminal)" title="Joseph Blake (criminal)">Joseph Blake</a>, alias "Blueskin", was similarly executed five days earlier.)</li> <li>Undated – <a href="/wiki/Blenheim_Palace" title="Blenheim Palace">Blenheim Palace</a> construction is completed. It has been built as a gift from the nation to the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Marlborough" class="mw-redirect" title="Duke of Marlborough">Duke of Marlborough</a> (died 1722) for his involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Blenheim" title="Battle of Blenheim">Battle of Blenheim</a> in 1704.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1724_in_Great_Britain&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Defoe" title="Daniel Defoe">Daniel Defoe</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/A_tour_thro%27_the_whole_island_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain">A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain</a></i> begins publication.<sup id="cite_ref-Cassell's_Chronology_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cassell's_Chronology-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Drapier%27s_Letters" title="Drapier's Letters">Drapier's Letters</a></i> begin publication.<sup id="cite_ref-Cassell's_Chronology_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cassell's_Chronology-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Watts" title="Isaac Watts">Isaac Watts</a>' textbook <i>Logic</i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1724_in_Great_Britain&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Births"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>24 January – <a href="/wiki/Frances_Brooke" title="Frances Brooke">Frances Brooke</a>, writer (died <a href="/wiki/1789_in_Great_Britain" title="1789 in Great Britain">1789</a>)</li> <li>28 February – <a href="/wiki/George_Townshend,_1st_Marquess_Townshend" title="George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend">George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend</a>, field marshal (died <a href="/wiki/1807_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1807 in the United Kingdom">1807</a>)</li> <li>19 May – <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Hervey,_3rd_Earl_of_Bristol" title="Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol">Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol</a>, admiral and politician (died <a href="/wiki/1779_in_Great_Britain" title="1779 in Great Britain">1779</a>)</li> <li>3 June – <a href="/wiki/John_Gregory_(moralist)" title="John Gregory (moralist)">John Gregory</a>, physician, medical writer and moralist (died <a href="/wiki/1773_in_Great_Britain" title="1773 in Great Britain">1773</a>)</li> <li>8 June – <a href="/wiki/John_Smeaton" title="John Smeaton">John Smeaton</a>, civil engineer (died <a href="/wiki/1792_in_Great_Britain" title="1792 in Great Britain">1792</a>)</li> <li>25 August – <a href="/wiki/George_Stubbs" title="George Stubbs">George Stubbs</a>, painter (died <a href="/wiki/1806_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1806 in the United Kingdom">1806</a>)</li> <li>3 September – <a href="/wiki/Guy_Carleton,_1st_Baron_Dorchester" title="Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester">Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester</a>, soldier and Governor of Quebec (died <a href="/wiki/1808_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1808 in the United Kingdom">1808</a>)</li> <li>31 October – <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Anstey" title="Christopher Anstey">Christopher Anstey</a>, writer (died <a href="/wiki/1805_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1805 in the United Kingdom">1805</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>12 December – <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Hood,_1st_Viscount_Hood" title="Samuel 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