1723 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1723 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
- 8 March – the Chelsea Waterworks Company receives a Royal Charter.{{cite web|url=http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page44.asp|title=Royal Charters, Privy Council website|accessdate=24 August 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824225331/http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/Page44.asp|archivedate=24 August 2007 }}
- 17 May – Christopher Layer is hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Jacobite Atterbury Plot
- May – Parliament passes the Black Act making poaching a capital offence.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|title=BBC History British History Timeline|accessdate=3 September 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|archivedate=9 September 2007}}
- June – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, receives a pardon for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion and is allowed to return to Britain, but not to sit in the House of Lords.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8}} Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, is banished from the country during the year for his part in Jacobite plotting.{{cite web|first=D. W.|last=Hayton|title=Atterbury, Francis (1663–1732)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/871|accessdate=22 November 2012|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/871}} {{ODNBsub}}
- 10 October – Treaty of Charlottenburg signed with Prussia.{{cite book|chapter=1723|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006}}
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- Parliament passes the Workhouse Test Act.{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750|accessdate=24 August 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164123/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750|archivedate=17 August 2007 }}
Births
- 23 February – Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
- 24 February – John Burgoyne, general (died 1792)
- 3 March – John Brown, merchant and ship-owner (died 1808)
- 5 March – Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1772)
- 23 April – Hannah Snell, soldier (died 1792)
- 16 June (5 June O.S.) – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (died 1790)
- 20 June
- Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 1816)
- Theophilus Lindsey, theologian (died 1808)
- 10 July – William Blackstone, jurist (died 1780)
- 16 July – Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (died 1792)
- 8 November – John Byron, admiral (died 1786)
Deaths
- 25 February – Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (born 1632)
- 26 February – Thomas d'Urfey, writer (born 1653)
- 31 March – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661)
- 11 April – John Robinson, diplomat (born 1650)
- 27 May – Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, illegitimate son of Charles II (born 1672)
- 26 July – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, statesman (born 1660)
- 17 August – Joseph Bingham, scholar (born 1668)
- 10 October – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor (born c.1665)
- 19 October – Godfrey Kneller, painter (born 1646, Lübeck)
- 1 December – Susanna Centlivre, dramatist and actress (born 1669)