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Britain 1750-1900 timeline
1750
Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London
Strawberry Hill admission ticket
Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Collection
1751
English poet Thomas Gray publishes his
Elegy written in a Country Church Yard
Thomas Gray, by Eccardt, 1748
National Portrait Gallery, London
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1751
English gardener Lancelot Brown sets up in business as a freelance 'improver of grounds', and soon acquires the nickname Capablity Brown
Lancelot ('Capability') Brown, by Dance, 1751
National Portrait Gallery, London
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1752
Britain is one of the last nations to adjust to the more accurate Gregorian calendar, causing a suspicious public to fear they have been robbed of eleven days
1752
English obstetrician William Smellie introduces scientific midwifery as a result of his researches into childbirth
1754
Scottish chemist Joseph Black identifies the existence of a gas, carbon dioxide, which he calls 'fixed air'
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