When Samuel Blacknall was christened on 1 August 1721, in Lambley, Nottinghamshire, England, his father, Richard Blackner, was 45 and his mother, Anne Walker, was 42. He married Mary Alison on 25 January 1740, in Old Whittington, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1740.
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Gregorian calendar was adopted in England in 1752. That year, Wednesday, September 2, 1752, was followed by Thursday, September 14th, 1752, which caused the country to skip ahead eleven days.
The Seven Years' War began as a North American conflict then stretched between England and France. England, along with allies, battled France in America, India, and Europe, making it arguably the first global war. The conflict ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763 and England was victorious. The Seven Years' war ultimately led to discontent in the colonies and the American Revolution.
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
English (Nottinghamshire): habitational name from Blakenhall in Caldwell (Derbyshire), Blakenall (Staffordshire), or some lost or unidentified place similarly named, from Old English blæc ‘black’ + halh ‘nook’.
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