31 March –
Benjamin Hoadly,
Bishop of Bangor, extends the
Bangorian Controversy by delivering a sermon to, and supposedly at the request of,
King George on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ with the text "My kingdom is not of this world" (
John 18:36), concluding there is no
Biblical justification for church government.[3]
November – a rift between the King and his son the
Prince of Wales leads to the latter being banished from the royal household. The Prince now sides with the
Opposition Whigs.
8 March –
Abraham Darby I, first of that name of three generations of a Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution (born
1678)
31 March –
Benjamin Hoadly,
Bishop of Bangor, extends the
Bangorian Controversy by delivering a sermon to, and supposedly at the request of,
King George on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ with the text "My kingdom is not of this world" (
John 18:36), concluding there is no
Biblical justification for church government.[3]
November – a rift between the King and his son the
Prince of Wales leads to the latter being banished from the royal household. The Prince now sides with the
Opposition Whigs.
8 March –
Abraham Darby I, first of that name of three generations of a Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution (born
1678)