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1751 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1751st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 751st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1751, the ...
The calendar reform bill was introduced in the session which began on 17 January 1750 Old Style [N.S. 28 January 1751], almost nine months into a year that had begun on 25 March 1750. Hence the Short Titles Act 1896 assigned the calendar reform to 1750. [53]
20 January – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, politician (born 1665) 29 March – Thomas Coram, sea captain and philanthropist (born c.1668) 31 March. Frederick, Prince of Wales (born 1707) Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (born 1701) 9 June – John Machin, mathematician and astronomer (b. c.1686)
The fourth session of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain, which met from 17 January 1751 until 25 June 1751. This session was also traditionally cited as 24 G. 2.
Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds, KG, PC (29 January 1751 – 31 January 1799), styled Marquess of Carmarthen until 1789, was a British politician. He notably served as Foreign Secretary under William Pitt the Younger from 1783 to 1791. He also was Governor of Scilly.
Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas (née Yorke; 23 January 1751 – 4 March 1833) [1] was a British diarist and political writer who was a countess and baroness in her own right. Had she been male, she would have served in the House of Lords as a Whig. She wrote particularly about the French Revolution.
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (27 August 1665 – 20 January 1751) was an English Whig politician. John Hervey was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the son of Sir Thomas Hervey. He was educated in Bury and at Clare College, Cambridge. [1] He became one of the two Members of Parliament for the town five years after his father in March 1694.
January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1751 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1671)