1733 in Great Britain
Events from the year 1733 in Great Britain.Incumbents
- Monarch – George II
- Prime Minister – Robert Walpole
- Parliament – 7th
Events
- 23 January – first performance of George Frideric Handel's opera Orlando in London.
- 12 February – British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.
- 26 May – John Kay patents the flying shuttle.
- 7 November – France and Spain sign the treaty of Escurial and form an alliance against Britain.
Undated
- The Sugar and Molasses Act is passed by Parliament to tax British colonists in North America.
- Robert Walpole's unpopular plan to introduce an excise to replace tariffs on wine and tobacco rocks his government.
- With an average Central England temperature of, this is the hottest calendar year for which reliable records exist until being shaded in 1834.
Births
- 13 February – Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor
- 13 March – Joseph Priestley, scientist and minister
- 27 July – Jeremiah Dixon, surveyor and astronomer
Deaths
- 21 January – Bernard Mandeville, economic philosopher
- 25 January – Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London
- 27 January – Thomas Woolston, theologian
- 19 April – Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England
- 10 May – Barton Booth, actor
- 16 August – Matthew Tindal, deist