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Gorgonzola
Thu Nov 09 2000 at 2:06:18
The year 1751 was only eight months long in
Great Britain
and its colonies; see below.
Born in 1751:
James Madison
, fourth
President of the United States
.
Irish
poet
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
. in
Dublin
.
American
writer
Judith Sargent Murray
.
Swiss
physicist
Pierre Prévost
, who showed that
cold
was the absence of
heat
.
English
politician
and
philosopher
Henry St. John Bolingbroke
.
English
poet
and
essayist
Capel Lofft
.
American
Revolutionary war
heroine
Margaret Corbin
.
English
furniture
designer
Thomas Sheraton
.
Russian composer
Dmitri Bortnyansky
.
Spanish] composer
Blas de Laserna
.
British
biologist
George Montagu
.
Austrian
painter
Friedrich Heinrich Füger
.
British naturalist
George Shaw
.
Swedish painter
Adolph Ulric Wertmüller
.
New Hampshire
general
Henry Dearborn
.
Died in 1751:
Italian
composer
Tomasso Albinoni
.
English
landscape architect
Batty Langly
.
Scottish poet
William Hamilton
.
Frederick Lewis
,
Prince of Wales
. His 11-year-old younger brother
George
is now next in line to the British Throne.
Tokugawa Yoshimune
,
Shogun
of
Japan
, force behind the development of the
Kansei Code
.
Events of 1751:
The
British
Parliament
passes:
The
Calendar Act
which matches Great Britain's calendar to most of the rest of
Europe
's by:
Adopting the
Gregorian Calendar
, to become effective in September,
1752
, and
Moving
New Year's Day
from March 25 to January 1.
The
Currency Act
prohibiting
New England
colonies from issuing paper money, and voiding all such currency in circulation.
The
Gin Act
regulating the production of
Gin
, thus increasing its expanse and vastly increasing the popularity of
beer
.
Robert Clive
, working for the
British East India Company
, captures
Arcot
, the capital of the
Carnatic
region in south-eastern
India
(controlled by the French).
Georgetown
founded in the area of
Maryland
that will eventually become the
District of Columbia
.
The
Pima
and
Papago
Indians rebel
against Spanish intrusion in southern
Arizona
. The Spanish build a
presidio
(fort) at
Tubac
the following year.
The first
steam
-powered oceangoing ship,
Gran Louis
, sails from
Le Havre
to
Port-Au-Prince
.
Alex Frederick Cronstedt
isolates a new metal from a type of copper ore called
Kupfernickel
("
Old Nick
's Copper"). He later names the metal
Nickel
.
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George III
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Kupfernickel
Gregorian calendar
James Madison
Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds
Lord Hardwicke
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Shogun
Presidio
nickel
Prince of Wales
New Hampshire