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The original vertical sundial is affixed to the centre of the front of Dial House.
Jonathan Swift launches his hero on a series of bitterly satirical adventures in Gulliver's Travels
J.S. Bach conducts the first performance of his St Matthew Passion in the St Thomas's church in Leipzig
On the death of his father, George I, George II becomes king of Great Britain
Handel composes Zadok the Priest for the crowning of George II, and it has been sung at every subsequent British coronation
Chambers Cyclopedia uses the word 'virus' for the first time in a medical context: 'By the microscope, the Virus was found to consist of minute Salts in continual Motion'
The Danish explorer Vitus Bering sails into Arctic seas through the strait between Asia and America known now by his name
Queen Caroline leases 'the Dutch House' while her husband, George II, is extending Richmond Gardens.
The building of Marble Hill House is completed. The house is designed in the Palladian style and built under the supervision of Roger Morris. The grounds are laid out by Charles Bridgeman.
Benjamin Franklin prints, publishes and largely writes the weekly Pennsylvania Gazette
Lady Kneller dies and Kneller Hall passes to Sir Godfrey Kneller's grandson.
The Italian poet Metastasio produces, in Vienna, opera libretti which are used by almost every composer of the day
John and Charles Wesley form a Holy Club at Oxford which becomes the cradle of Methodism
Construction begins of Clandon Park House, home of the Onslow and v
The Flemish-born sculptor Michael Rysbrack creates a momument to Newton in Westminster Abbey
Frederick, Prince of Wales, buys Kew Park, which with 19 acres is the only large estate in Kew not yet bought or leased by his parents.
English maker of telescopes John Hadley designs the instrument which evolves into the standard sextant used at sea
Benjamin Franklin sets up a subscription library, the Library Company of Philadelphia
Frederick Prince of Wales takes a lease of a house at the west end of Kew Green opposite Kew Palace and instructs William Kent to remodel it. It becomes known as the White House.
Georgia is granted to a group of British philanthropists, to give a new start in life to debtors
With the performance of Esther Handel taps a rich new vein, the English oratorio
An alliance between the French and Spanish Bourbons is the first of what become known as the Family Compacts
Voltaire publishes a series of Philosophical Letters comparing the French unfavourably with England
John Kay, working in the Lancashire woollen industry, patents the flying shuttle to speed up weaving
Benjamin Franklin establishes the most successful of America's almanacs, publishing it annually until 1758
