Maw, George

Male Abt 1731 - Bef 1737  (5 years)  


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   Date  Event(s)
1731 
  • 1731—1731: Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull [others say 1701]
  • 1731—1731: Invention of sextant by John Hadley
1732 
  • 7 Dec 1732—7 Dec 1732: Covent Garden Opera House opens
1733 
  • 1733—1733: Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine - Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax
  • 1733—1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
  • 1733—1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle, revolutionised the weaving industry
1734 
  • 1734—1734: Kent's Directory published