1732 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1732 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

14 February – first performance of Henry Fielding's comedy The Modern Husband, at the Royal Theatre on Drury Lane in London.
3 March – Captain Charles Gough rediscovers Gough Island in the South Atlantic.^[3]^[4]
30 March – MPs John Birch and Denis Bond are expelled from the House of Commons after using their positions on the Commission for Forfeited Lands to make fraudulent sales.
April–May – first performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Esther, in London.^[5]
9 June – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.^[6]
7 December – the original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (predecessor of the Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich.^[7]

Act provides that any man after 24 June 1733 charged on oath with being the father of an illegitimate child should be imprisoned until he provides a financial bond to indemnify the parish from liability for it under the Poor Law.^[8]
Secession Church formed in Scotland.^[9]
Trinity House moors the world's first lightship at the Nore in the Thames Estuary.^[10]

12 January – John Horsley, archaeologist (born c. 1685)
22 January – Louis de Sabran, theologian (born 1652)
6 February – Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wealthy Scottish peeress (born 1651)
7 February – William Hiseland, soldier, reputed supercentenarian (born 1620)
22 February – Francis Atterbury, bishop and man of letters (born 1663)
20 May – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (born 1676)
30 May – John King, churchman (born 1652)
1 June – Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland (born 1700)
16 July – Woodes Rogers, privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (born c. 1679)
6 October – George Duckett, politician (born 1684)
26 November – Charles Sergison, politician (born 1655)
4 December – John Gay, poet and dramatist (born 1685)

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^ Heaney, J. B.; Holdgate, M. W. (1957). "The Gough Island Scientific Survey". The Geographical Journal. 123: 20–31. doi:10.2307/1790719. JSTOR 1790718.
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^ "Bastardy or Illegitimacy in England". Price Genealogy. July 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
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^ "Trinity House – Lightvessels". PortCities London. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
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