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1784 in Great Britain

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1784 in Great Britain:
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1784 English cricket season

Events from the year 1784 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

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Events

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Undated

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Births

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Deaths

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  • 4 March – Ann Cargill, opera singer, drowned in shipwreck (born 1760)
  • 27 March – Ralph Bigland, officer of arms (born 1712)
  • 31 March – Thomas Adam, clergyman and religious writer (born 1701)
  • 10 August – Allan Ramsay, Scottish-born portrait painter (born 1713)
  • 14 August – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born portrait painter (born 1718)
  • 5 September – Maria Linley, singer (born 1763)
  • September – John Bennett, organist and composer (born c.1735)
  • 13 December – Samuel Johnson, writer and lexicographer (born 1709)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  2. ^ Cavendish, Henry (1784). "Experiments on Air". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 75: 372–384. doi:10.1098/rstl.1785.0023. JSTOR 106582.
  3. ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  4. ^ Reading Mercury, 22 Mar 1784, p.1; "Timeline of capital punishment in Britain". Retrieved 2011-02-02.
  5. ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 228–230. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  6. ^ Lough, Janice; Wigley Tom and Jones, Phil; ‘Spatial patterns of precipitation in England and Wales and a revised homogeneous England and Wales precipitation series’; in Journal of Climatology; Volume 4, pp. 1–25 (1984)
  7. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 336–337. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  8. ^ Hibbert, Christopher (1988). "Sadler's Balloon Ascents". The Encyclopædia of Oxford. London: Macmillan. pp. 370–1. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
  9. ^ Gales, W.K.V. (1981). Ironworking. Princes Risborough. p. 8. ISBN 0-85263-546-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ Hadley Centre Ranked Central England temperature.