1703.—November 27th, a great storm, which did much damage to the town and the vessels belonging to it.
1705.—August 11th, a terrific storm.
1713.—Mr. Henry May paid to the parish one halfpenny for permission to convey the corpse of his father through Hilly Lane, from the Race Hill to the town, there being no high road.
1727.—The Town Well, on the Knab, finished.
1749.—January, the Block-house partially destroyed by an extraordinary high tide.
1750.—Dr. Richard Russell took up his residence in Brighton.
1754.—Russell Street (so named from Dr. Russell, the founder of the fame of Brighton) built.
1761.—Battery erected at the bottom of East Street.
— Lady Huntingdon’s Chapel first erected.
1768.—The first baths in Brighton constructed, on the site of Brill’s Ladies’ Swimming Bath.