Timeline: Benjaman Davenport: Our Family History

1733 - 1738 (5 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1733	1733—1733: Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine - Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax 1733—1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years 1733—1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle, revolutionised the weaving industry
2	1734	1734—1734: Kent's Directory published
3	1737	1737—1737: Licensing Act restricts the number of London theatres and subects plays to censorship of the Lord Chamberlain (till 1950s)
4	1738	24 May 1738—24 May 1738: John Wesley has his conversion experience