1751 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1751 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

25 March – legally New Year's Day for the last time in England and Wales.
31 March – Frederick, Prince of Wales dies at Leicester House, London from a lung injury and is succeeded by his son the future George III of the United Kingdom as heir apparent to the throne; three weeks later George is made Prince of Wales.^[2] George's mother, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, becomes Dowager Princess of Wales.
April – the Gin Act requires government inspection of distilleries and restricts sale to licensed premises.^[3]
27 May – adoption of the Gregorian calendar: royal assent is given to An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use (the "Calendar Act") passed by Parliament, introducing the Gregorian Calendar, correcting the eleven-day difference between Old Style and New Style dates and making 1 January legally New Year's Day from 1752 in the British Empire.^[2]^[4] It is largely promoted by George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield.
4 June – Dr John Wall and partners establish a porcelain factory in Worcester, "The Worcester Tonquin Manufactory", the origin of Royal Worcester.^[5]^[6]
31 August – Robert Clive takes the Indian town of Arcot from the French.^[2]
20 October – Charles, Duke of Bolton, marries celebrated actress Lavinia Fenton, already the mother of his three children.
3 December – Battle of Arnee: Robert Clive defeats a Franco-Indian force.

31 January – Priscilla Wakefield (née Bell), Quaker writer and philanthropist (died 1832)
2 May – John André, soldier (died 1780)
4 June – John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor (died 1838)
11 July – Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, posthumously-born daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and later queen consort of Denmark (died 1775)
30 October – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-born dramatist and politician (died 1816)
14 November – Capel Lofft, lawyer, writer and astronomer (died 1824 in France)
date unknown
- Helen Craik, Scottish novelist and poet (died 1825) (probable year)
- Thomas Sheraton, furniture designer (died 1806)

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)
22 August – Andrew Gordon, Scottish-born Benedictine monk, physicist and inventor (born 1712)
2 October – Thomas Mathews, Welsh admiral (born 1676)
26 October – Philip Doddridge, nonconformist religious leader (born 1702)
12 December – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, statesman and philosopher (born 1678)
17 December – Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet, Governor of Virginia (born 1681)
19 December – Louise of Great Britain, English-born queen of Frederick V of Denmark (born 1724)

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^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 220–221. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Dagnall, H. (1991). Give us back our eleven days. Edgware: author. p. 19. ISBN 0-9515497-2-3.
^ "Dr. Wall and the first Worcester factory" (PDF). Worcester Porcelain Museum. 2010-12-31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28.
^ Jervis, William Percival (1911). A Pottery Primer. New York: The O'Gorman Publishing Co. pp. 104–6.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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