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The following events took place during his lifetime
1735 Conjuration and Witchcraft Act repealed previous witchcraft acts and made persons (“Pretenders”) claiming to have arts or powers whereby ‘ignorant persons are frequently deluded or defrauded” such as by witchcraft, sorcery, inchantment, conjuration, fortune telling or other occult or crafty science liable to punishment on conviction.
1747 Changes introduced in regard to the window tax (1696).
1751 “Gin” Act for “additional Duty upon Spirituous Liquors ... and the more effectually restraining the Retailing of distilled Spirituous Liquors”; suppressed about 1,700 gin shops in London.
England and Wales adopted the Gregorian calendar.
1753 Marriage Act (Hardwicke’s Act) - only marriages carried out by a Church of England parson were legal.
1759 British Museum opened.
1769 Steam engine patented by James Watt (1736-1819, engineer).
1775 Outbreak of the American War of Independence; continued until 1783.
1782 Act for the Licensing Lottery Office Keepers, and Regulating the Sale of Lottery Tickets
1785 Digitalis first used in the treatment of heart disease.
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