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1750
 
    
Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London       
Strawberry Hill admission ticket
Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Collection
1751
 
    
English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard       
Thomas Gray, by Eccardt, 1748
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1751
 
   
English gardener Lancelot Brown sets up in business as a freelance 'improver of grounds', and soon acquires the nickname Capablity Brown      
Lancelot ('Capability') Brown, by Dance, 1751
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1752
 
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Britain is one of the last nations to adjust to the more accurate Gregorian calendar, causing a suspicious public to fear they have been robbed of eleven days      
1752
 
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English obstetrician William Smellie introduces scientific midwifery as a result of his researches into childbirth      
1754
 
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Scottish chemist Joseph Black identifies the existence of a gas, carbon dioxide, which he calls 'fixed air'