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1730
Oct 27
| 1730 • Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, retires from his role in the government of Great Britain, leaving Robert Walpole as sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet (i.e., prime minister). In the new Walpole Ministry, Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet, becomes Secretary at War, and Henry Pelham is Paymaster of the Forces. Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington briefly becomes Lord Privy Seal. |
1730
Oct 29
Age: 2d
| 1730 • Anna Ivanovna (Anna of Russia) becomes tsarina, following the death of her cousin, Tsar Peter II. |
1754
May 21
Age: 23y
marriageJohn Phillip Klinger Evangelisch, Neunirchen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstatd ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1754 • The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 comes into force in England and Wales, placing marriage in that jurisdiction on a statutory basis for the first time. |
after
May 21
Age: 23y
1754
May 21
Age: 23y
immigrationPennsylvania, USA ⇓ Aboard the ship "Neptune" 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1754 • Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity. |
1765
Dec 11
Age: 35y
birth of childJohann Phillip Klinger Reading, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1765 • The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that a Mr. McCullough, the Distributor of Stamps for the Royal Colony of North Carolina, has resigned his post in protest at the Stamp Act. A Dr. Huston is appointed to the position. |
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Age: 84y
1815
Age: 84y
| 1815 • Napoleon abdicates again; Napoleon II (1811–1832), age 4, rules for two weeks (22 June to 7 July). |