1721 Several persons ruined by the South-sea stock falling to 150 per cent. Several members of parliament expelled for being concerned in the South-sea bubble, and their estates confiscated for the use of the sufferers.
1725 The Lord Chancellor (Earl of Macclesfield) displaced, impeached, and fined £30,000 for corruption. Jonathan Wild, a notorious thief-taker, executed.
1727 The Spaniards besiege Gibraltar. Sir Isaac Newton died, aged 85.
1729 Deaths of Dr. S. Clarke, Sir Richard Steele, Congreve the poet, and the noted John Law.
1731 Deaths of Dr. Atterbury, and Defoe.
1732 Death of Gay, the poet and fabulist.
1737 A comet appeared. Death of Howe.
1739 Admiral Vernon takes Porto Bello.
1742 Sir Robert Walpole resigned, after holding his places twenty-one years.
1743 King George defeated the French at Dettingen.