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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1732 | - 7 Dec 1732—7 Dec 1732: Covent Garden Opera House opens
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| 2 | 1733 | - 1733—1733: Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine -
Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax
- 1733—1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in
Latin for a few years
- 1733—1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle, revolutionised the weaving industry
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| 3 | 1734 | - 1734—1734: Kent's Directory published
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| 4 | 1737 | - 1737—1737: Licensing Act restricts the number of London theatres and subects plays to censorship
of the Lord Chamberlain (till 1950s)
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| 5 | 1738 | - 24 May 1738—24 May 1738: John Wesley has his conversion experience
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| 6 | 1739 | - 1739—1739: Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
- 7 Apr 1739—7 Apr 1739: Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York
- 23 Oct 1739—23 Oct 1739: War of Jenkins' Ear starts: Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain
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Thrale history
1732 - 1740 (7 years)