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1724
| 1724 • Blenheim Palace construction is completed in England. It is presented as a gift from the nation to the Duke of Marlborough for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. |
1745
Age: 21y
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marriageFrances Poindexter 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1745 • December 18 Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Clifton Moor Skirmish, the last action between two military forces on English soil.Unless the Battle of Graveney Marsh (1940) is counted. |
1772
Age: 48y
birth of childSarah Anderson Virginia, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1772 • Breton-French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean. |
1782
Age: 58y
| 1782 • Laird of Johnstone, George Ludovic Houston invites people to buy marked plots of land which, when built upon, form the planned town of Johnstone, Scotland, to provide employment for his thread and cotton mills. |