1708
Birth of William Pitt
Birth of William Pitt
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Westminster in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Birth of William Pitt
Pitt soon joins a faction of discontented Whigs known as the Patriots who form part of the opposition
Elected Member of Parliament for Westminster
Introduces a parliamentary bill to abolish the slave trade
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel dies in Westminster after a career in civil and mechanical engineering.
Brunel suffers a severe stroke shortly before the first sea trials of SS Great Eastern.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel dies at the age of fifty-three after a career transforming railways, bridges, tunnels and ships.
Appointed Dean of Westminster
An Empire Free Trade Crusade party threatens the Conservatives when satisfaction with Baldwins leadership is at a low, Duff Cooper agrees to contest the bi-election in what is seen as a test of Baldwins leadership
Elected Member of Parliament for St Georges, Westminster, wins the seat with a majority of 5,710, thus returning to Parliament and serving until 1945. An Empire Free Trade Crusade party threatens the Conservatives when satisfaction with Baldwins leadership is at a low, Duff Cooper agrees to contest the bi-election in what is seen as a test of Baldwins leadership
Elected Member of Parliament for St Georges, Westminster, wins the seat with a majority of 5,710, thus returning to Parliament and serving until 1945
Appointed Archbishop of Westminster
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