1731 - 1740

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1731

Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull

Invention of sextant by John Hadley

1732

Earliest Cavalry and Infantry Muster Rolls

1733

Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine – Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax

Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed – some continued in Latin for a few years

1734

Kent's Directory

1738

Earliest Calvinistic Methodist registers

John Wesley has his conversion experience

1739

April 7: Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York

Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival

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