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| 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
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| 1751 |
| | | English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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| 1752 |
| | | English obstetrician William Smellie introduces scientific midwifery as a result of his researches into childbirth | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Scottish chemist Joseph Black identifies the existence of a gas, carbon dioxide, which he calls 'fixed air' | |
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| 1755 |
| | | Samuel Johnson publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English Language | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Admiral John Byng is shot on the deck of a ship in Portsmouth harbour for 'neglect of duty' in failing to relieve Minorca | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Robert Adam returns to Britain after two years in Rome with a repertoire of classical themes which he mingles to form a new British neoclassicism | |
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| 1757 |
| | | William Pitt the Elder becomes secretary of state and transforms the British war effort against France in America | |
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