1735 in Great Britain explained

Events from the year 1735 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

2 January – Alexander Pope's poem Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot is published in London.^[3]
8 January – premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London.^[4]
16 April – London premiere of Alcina by Handel, his first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House.^[5]
20 April – religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth church, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival.^[6]
10 May – Charles Macklin unintentionally kills fellow actor Thomas Hallam after a dispute during a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. He is later tried and convicted of manslaughter.
22 May – George Hadley publishes the first explanation of the trade winds.^[7]
22 September – Robert Walpole moves into 10 Downing Street.^[8]
6 December – the second successful appendectomy is performed by naturalised French-born surgeon Claudius Aymand at St George's Hospital in London (the first was in 1731).^[9]

William Hogarth produces his A Rake's Progress series of paintings.^[5]
Unscrupulous London publisher Edmund Curll produces Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons containing forgeries.
Richard Leveridge writes a melody to Henry Fielding's The Roast Beef of Old England.
Beau Nash appoints himself master of ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells.

8 January – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Royal Navy admiral (died 1823)
22 February – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, politician (died 1806)
25 February (bapt.) – William Speechly, horticulturalist (died 1819)
10 April (bapt.) – Button Gwinnett, 2nd Governor of Georgia (died 1777)
8 May – Nathaniel Dance, portrait painter and politician (died 1811)
7 September – Thomas Coutts, banker (died 1822)
20 September – James Keir, Scottish-born geologist, chemist and industrialist (died 1820)
28 September – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister (died 1811)^[10]
21 October – Richard Gough, antiquary (died 1809)
10 November – Granville Sharp, abolitionist (died 1813)
14 November – John Howie, Scottish biographer (died 1793)
29 December – Thomas Banks, sculptor and artist (died 1805)

12 January – John Eccles, composer (born 1668)
27 February – John Arbuthnot, physician and author (born 1667)
29 March – Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, politician and colonial administrator (born 1700)
5 April – William Derham, minister and writer (born 1657)
25 April – Samuel Wesley, poet and religious leader (born 1662)
10 June – Thomas Hearne, antiquarian (born 1678)
14 December – Thomas Tanner, bishop and antiquarian (born 1674)

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Web site: History of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton - GOV.UK . www.gov.uk . 25 June 2023 . en.