page_title: Timeline of Oxford
section_title: 1700s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Oxford / 1700s
caption_attribution_description: The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, England as viewed from the tower of the Church of St Mary the Virgin. This is a 10 (2x5) segment panorama taken by myself with a Canon 5D and 70-200mm f/2.8L at 70mm. This is a photo of listed building number 1099146. (More images)
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city, University and colleges of Oxford, England.
context_section_description: 1700 – 8 March: Spire of All Saints Church in The High collapses. The body of the church is rebuilt 1706–1708.
  1705 – Edmond Halley, Professor of Geometry, installed in his observatory in New College Lane, identifies the orbit of the comet which will be named after him.
  1706–1711 – Peckwater Quadrangle at Christ Church is built on the site of Vine Hall and Peckwater's Inn.
  1707–1760 – Major rebuilding of The Queen's College.
  1708 – 14 July: Joseph Trapp becomes first Oxford Professor of Poetry.
  1711–1715 – Clarendon Building, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, built for Oxford University Press.
  1712 – 20 July: Jesus College inherits the extensive library of its Principal Jonathan Edwards on his death.
  1714
  29 July: Worcester College, is founded in the university under the will of Sir Thomas Cookes of Worcestershire (died 1701) on the site of Gloucester Hall.
  1 December: Funeral of Dr John Radcliffe in Oxford.
  1715 – 28–29 May: Riots in support of Jacobitism, partly directed against Dissenters.
  1716 – Construction begins of
  All Souls' College's North Quad and Codrington Library, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor (21 June).
  University College's Radcliffe Quadrangle, to the design of its older buildings.
  1718 – 16 November: The Alfred Jewel, a work of Anglo-Saxon art, is given to the Ashmolean Museum.
  1720 – Spire of All Saints Church in The High rebuilt.
  1721 – 1 November: Death of Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew and Bishop of Durham, activates his bequests of 24 June 1720 setting up the annual Creweian Oration and Feast in the university.
  c.1721 – First New Road Baptist chapel built.
  1722 – Turl Street gate in city wall demolished.
  1728 – 17 November: William Smith completes writing The Annals of University College, written to refute the legend of the college's foundation by Alfred the Great, in favour of William of Durham.
  1729 – Charles Wesley and his brother John set up the Holy Club, origin of Methodism, with 14 fellow students, including George Whitefield.
  1733
  5–12 July: George Frideric Handel performs a series of concerts in Oxford including on 10 July the première of his oratorio Athalia in the Sheldonian Theatre, where he plays the 1725 Harris organ.
  New Buildings at Magdalen College begun.
  1737 – 17 May: Radcliffe Library construction begins.
  1738 – Boswells of Oxford department store begins business as a luggage manufacturer and retailer. It closes in March–April 2020.
  1740 – 8 September: Hart Hall refounded by charter as the first Hertford College in the university.
  1741 – Dial clock installed in tower of University Church of St Mary the Virgin by Thomas Paris of Warwick.
  1748
  February–April: Student riots in support of Jacobitism.
  Holywell Music Room, the first purpose-built concert hall in Europe, is opened.
  1749 – 12 April: The circular Radcliffe Library, designed by James Gibbs, is opened under the bequest of Dr John Radcliffe (died 1714) in the newly laid out Radcliffe Square.
  1751
  Guildhall replaced by Town Hall, including a cornmarket.
  Codrington Library at All Souls is completed.
  1752 – 6 April: Mary Blandy is hanged at Oxford Castle for patricide, the last woman hanged in Oxford.
  1753 – 5 May: Jackson's Oxford Journal begins publication.
  1755 – January: The Ashmolean Museum's decayed stuffed dodo is largely destroyed.
  1765 – 12 June: The death of General John Guise activates his 1760 bequest of a large collection of Old Master paintings to his alma mater, Christ Church, where they are assembled in 1767 as the foundation of Christ Church Picture Gallery.
  1769
  Oxford standard text of the King James Bible, edited by Benjamin Blayney, first published.
  Alfred Masonic lodge first meets.
  1770
  18 October: Radcliffe Infirmary admits its first patients.
  New Road completed.
  1771 – 28 March: Mileways Act provides for major improvements to the city streets. East Gate, North Gate and Bocardo Prison demolished and paving and lighting commissioners appointed.
  1772
  February: Floods cause partial collapse of Magdalen Bridge over the Cherwell.
  The first city workhouse is opened on the site that will later become Wellington Squ
caption: Radcliffe Camera
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