* 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.

* April 2 – Thomas Gage, British general ( b. 1719 )

Two future opponents in the American Revolutionary War, Washington and Thomas Gage, played key roles in organizing the retreat.

On 4 February 1775 Governor Guy Carleton wrote to General Thomas Gage that he believed the Canadians to be generally happy with the Act, yet he also added:

Given the unstable state of affairs in Massachusetts, Hillsborough instructed General Thomas Gage, Commander-in-Chief, North America, to send " such Force as You shall think necessary to Boston ".

Because it was an important munitions depot, Worcester was targeted for attack by Loyalist general Thomas Gage.

In 1770 and 1772 General Thomas Gage, the commander in chief of Britain's North American forces, received warnings that the residents of Vincennes were not remaining loyal, and were inciting native tribes along the river trade routes against the British.

Originally, the town was named Gageborough in honor of British General Thomas Gage, but was changed due to the general's Revolutionary War affiliation.

* Margaret Kemble Gage ( 1734 – 1824 ), who allegedly spied on her husband General Thomas Gage in order to supply military intelligence to the American Revolutionary Army.

From the age of ten Burgoyne attended the prestigious Westminster School, as did many British army officers of the time such as Thomas Gage with whom Burgoyne would later serve.

As dawn broke on June 17 the British could clearly see hastily constructed fortifications on Breed's Hill, and British Gen. Thomas Gage knew that he would have to drive the rebels out before fortifications were complete.

After leading British troops to a costly victory in the Battle of Bunker Hill, Howe took command of all British forces in America from Thomas Gage in September of that year.

He also let government ministers know privately that he was prepared to serve in America as second in command to Thomas Gage, who he knew was unpopular in government circles.

He led a force of 4, 000 troops sent to reinforce the 5, 000 troops under General Thomas Gage that were besieged in the city after those battles.

He was replaced as governor in May 1774 by General Thomas Gage, and went into exile in England, where he advised the government on how to deal with the Americans.

Thomas Gage was born in England, possibly at Firle Place, Firle, East Sussex, where the Gage family had been seated since the 15th century.

His father, Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage, was a noted nobleman given titles in Ireland.

Thomas Gage ( the elder ) had three children, of whom Thomas was the second.

With his military experience and relative youth ( Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson was then 62 years old and unpopular, and the equally unpopular lieutenant governor ( Andrew Oliver ), a hated Tory, was 67 in 1773 and died in March 1774 ), Gage, a popular figure on both sides of the Atlantic, was deemed the best man to handle the brewing crisis and enforce the Parliamentary acts.

On 25 June 1775, Thomas Gage wrote a dispatch to Britain, notifying Lord Dartmouth of the results of the battle on 17 June.

In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of such collections, including Thomas D ' Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 – 20 ) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ).

Thomas Bowdler was born at Box, near Bath, Somerset, the youngest son of the six children of Thomas Bowdler ( c. 1719 – 1785 ), a banker of substantial fortune, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Cotton ( d. 1797 ), the daughter of Sir John Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire.

This calculation he proposed to the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg ( Санкт Петербург ) in the booklet V. razprava ( The fifth discussion ), where he had found with his calculating method an error on the 113th place from the estimation of Thomas Fantet de Lagny ( 1660 – 1734 ) from 1719 of 127 places.

The play was revived again in 1718 and 1719 ( with John Bickerstaff as Aaron ) and 1721 ( with Thomas Walker in the role ).

* Thomas Sheridan ( actor ) ( 1719 – 1788 ), Irish actor, theatre manager and elocution teacher

Sir Thomas Webster, MP and baronet ( 1677 – 1751, created a baronet 1703, baronetcy extinct 1923 ), married the heiress Jane Cheek ( granddaughter of a wealthy merchant, Henry Whistler, to whose vast inheritance she succeeded in 1719 ).

Thomas Lockey ( 1660 – 1665 ) was regarded as not fit for the post, John Hudson ( 1701 – 1719 ) has been described as " negligent if not incapable ", and John Price ( 1768 – 1813 ) was accused by a contemporary scholar of " a regular and constant neglect of his duty ".

Born in 1719 in Ulster, Ireland, William and his brother Thomas were able to leave Ireland before oppression and depression reached its peak.

There is a common legend that in 1713 a cock boy named Humphrey Potter, whose duty it was to open and shut the valves of an engine he attended, made the engine self-acting by causing the beam itself to open and close the valves by suitable cords and catches ( known as the " potter cord "); however the plug tree device ( the first form of valve gear ) was very likely established practice before 1715 and is clearly depicted in the earliest known images of Newcomen engines by Henry Beighton 1717 ( believed by Hulse to depict the 1714 Griff colliery engine ) and by Thomas Barney ( 1719 ) ( depicting the 1712 Dudley Castle engine ).

* Thomas Sprott's Chronica ( 1719 )

Thomas Sheridan ( 1719 – 14 August 1788 ) was an Irish stage actor, an educator, and a major proponent of the elocution movement.

The Museum's reconstruction was based on a print of the engine engraved by Thomas Barney, filemaker of Wolverhampton, in 1719.

In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of collections of what was now beginning to be defined as " folk " music, strongly influenced by the Romantic movement, including Thomas D ' Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 – 20 ) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ).

The original work by Baker had been based on Gerard Langbaine the Younger's Account of the English Dramatick Poets ( 1691 ), Giles Jacob's Poetical Register ( 1719 ), Thomas Whincop's List of all the Dramatic Authors ( printed with his tragedy of Scanderbeg, 1747 ) and the manuscripts of Thomas Coxeter.

* Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull ( d. 1719 )

Thomas Whieldon ( born September 1719 in Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent-died March 1795 ) was one of the most respected and well known English potters of his time.

Of these, Thomas ( d. 1719 ; Crown Governor of Virginia 1680 – 1683 ) was the successor in the title, which became extinct on the death of his younger brother Cheney, in 1725.

* Thomas D ' Urfey, Lewd Songs and Low Ballads of the Eighteenth Century: Bawdy Songs From Thomas D ' urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 ), Boulder, Colorado, Bartholomew Press, 1991.

* 1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor ( b. c. 1654 )

Thomas Darling ( 1720 – 1789 ), a tutor at Yale College and later an entrepreneur in New Haven, moved to town in 1774.

Papers read at their meetings are preserved in Cotton's collections, and were printed by Thomas Hearne in 1720 under the title A Collection of Curious Discourses, a second edition appearing in 1771.

In 1720 an act of Parliament was passed allowing Thomas Steers and William Squire to make the Douglas navigable to small ships between Wigan and its mouth.

In 1689, he was apprenticed to Thomas Highmore ( 1660 – 1720 ), a specialist in non-figurative decorative painting.

* Joseph Dudley ( 1647 – 1720 ), colonial governor of Massachusetts, son of Thomas Dudley

* Joseph Dudley ( 1647 – 1720 ), a colonial governor of Massachusetts, son of Thomas Dudley

In 1720 he married Hannah, daughter of Thomas Wood of Fallodon near Alnwick in Northumberland.

The son of Thomas Shadwell, Charles Shadwell was the author of The Fair Quaker of Deal, Irish Hospitality, or, Virtue Rewarded, and other plays, collected and published in 1720.

Similarly there were, later, the West India merchant Thomas Lucas ( c. 1720 – 1784 ) and his business partner William Coleman.

Cato's Letters were essays by British writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, first published from 1720 to 1723 under the pseudonym of Cato ( 95 – 46 BC ), the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a famously stubborn champion of republican principles.

Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston ( 1720 – 26 August 1788 ), sometimes called Countess of Bristol, was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Chudleigh ( died 1726 ), and was appointed maid of honour

It was apparently first published in 1720 by Thomas D ' Urfey in his Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy.

It was created in 1720 for Thomas Gage, along with the subsidiary title of Baron Gage, of Castlebar in the County of Mayo, also in the Peerage of Ireland.

* Sir Thomas Gage, 8th Baronet ( died 1754 ) ( had been created Viscount Gage in 1720 )

* Sir Thomas Southwell, 2nd Baronet ( 1665 – 1720 ) ( created Baron Southwell in 1717 )

* Thomas Southwell, 1st Baron Southwell ( 1665 – 1720 )

In 1718 he was appointed an assistant surgeon at St Thomas ' Hospital in London, becoming full surgeon in 1720 where his specialisation of the removal of bladder stones resulted in the increase in survival rates.

Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford PC ( c. 1654 – 31 January 1720 ) was a British peer and politician.

His father, also called Thomas Creech, died in 1720, and his mother, Jane Creech, died in 1693 ; they had two children, Thomas the translator and one daughter Bridget, who married Thomas Bastard, an architect of Blandford, and had issue six sons and four daughters.

* Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford ( c. 1653 – 1720 )

Lord Thomas Bertie ( 24 July 1720 – 21 July 1749 )