1735 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1735 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

2 January – Alexander Pope's poem Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot is published in London.[2]
8 January – premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London.[3]
16 April – London premiere of Alcina by Handel, his first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House.[4]
20 April – religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth church, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival.[5]
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.[6]
22 September – Robert Walpole moves into 10 Downing Street.[7]
6 December – the first successful appendectomy is performed by naturalised French-born surgeon Claudius Aymand at St George's Hospital in London.[8]

William Hogarth produces his A Rake's Progress series of paintings.[4]
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)
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)
5 April – William Derham, minister and writer (born 1657)
5 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)
date unknown – Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, politician and colonial administrator (born 1700)

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Dated 1734. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
"1735." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 13 Jun, 2007
Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 305. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
Richard Bennett. "The Early Life of Howell Harris". The Revival Library. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
"Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
Hutchinson, R. (February 1993). "Amyand's hernia". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 86 (2): 104–105. PMC 1293861. PMID 8433290.

1735 in Europe
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