Events from the year 1735 in Great Britain.
Incumbents Monarch – George II Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 17 May, until 26 October) Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)
Events 2 January – Alexander Pope's poem Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot is published in London.Dated 1734. 8 January – premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London. 16 April – London premiere of Alcina by Handel, his first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House. 20 April – religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth church, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival. 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. 25 June – Engraving Copyright Act ('Hogarth's Act') takes effect on being given royal assent, the first of a series of copyright protection laws, to protect original engravings against unauthorized copies. 22 September – Robert Walpole moves into 10 Downing Street. 14 October – John Wesley and his brother Charles set sail from England for Savannah in the Province of Georgia in British America; on the voyage they first encounter members of the Moravian Church. 6 December – the second successful appendectomy is performed by naturalised French-born surgeon Claudius Aymand at St George's Hospital in London (the first was in 1731).
Undated William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress series of paintings are published as engraved prints in London. 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.
Births 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)
Undated John Barrow, Catholic priest (died 1811) Lumpy Stevens, cricketer (died 1819)
Deaths 12 January – John Eccles, composer (born 1668) 27 February – John Arbuthnot, physician and author (born 1667) 29 March – Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, politician and colonial administrator (born 1700) 5 April – William Derham, minister and writer (born 1657) 25 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)
See also 1735 in Wales
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