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November 13 - Prince George William, first child born to the new Prince and Princess of Wales since they took their titles (d. 1718) 1719 February - William Edwards, clergyman and bridge engineer (d. 1789) November 30 - Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, future Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
10 June – Watkin Williams-Wynn, heir to a baronetcy, establishes the "Cycle of the White Rose", a Jacobite group, in North Wales. [10] 30 September - John Ellis becomes Rector of Llandwrog and is made a canon of Bangor Cathedral. [11] October/November - In the 1710 British general election: John Meyrick becomes MP for Cardigan Boroughs.
Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, one of the main planners of the Plantation. A colonization of Ulster had been proposed since the end of the Nine Years' War.The original proposals were smaller, involving planting settlers around key military posts and on church land, and would have included large land grants to native Irish lords who sided with the English during the war, such as ...
The settlers in Providence Plantations adopted a covenant which stressed the separation of religious and civil affairs. [24] That plantation was part a larger series of English plantations in New England. These plantations played a large role in developing the Northern economy in opposing lines from the plantation-based economy of the American ...
1710 in Wales; 1711 in Wales; 1712 in Wales; 1713 in Wales; 1714 in Wales; 1715 in Wales; 1716 in Wales; 1717 in Wales; 1718 in Wales; 1719 in Wales This ...
1 February - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751) 1708 8 December - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist (d. 1759) date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary (d. 1781) 1709 date unknown. Joseph Hoare, academic (d. 1802) David Williams, schoolmaster (d. 1784)
Upon the death of Christopher Codrington in 1710, the two estates were left to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to fund the establishment of college in Barbados stating his "Desire to have the Plantations Continued Entire and three hundred negros at Least always Kept there on, and a Convenient Number of Professors and Scholars maintain'd."
1810 – The Gold Medal of the Society was this Session adjudged to Thomas Johnes, Esq. MP of Hafod in Cardiganshire, for his Plantations of Larch and other trees. Approximately three million trees were planted on the estate during the tenancy of Colonel Johnes. Without doubt, Thomas Johnes was the pioneer of upland afforestation in Wales.