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EVENTS

March 11 - First publication of the ''Daily Courant'' (first regular English language newspaper)

Sir John Vanbrugh turns from drama to architecture by designing Castle Howard .

NEW BOOKS

''The Shortest Way with the Dissenters'' by Daniel Defoe

''The Tyrant King of Crete'' (play) by Sir Charles Sedley

BIRTHS

June 26 - Philip Doddridge , Nonconformist preacher and writer

Yokai Yagu , Japanese poet. (died 1783 )

DEATHS

May 27 - Dominique Bouhours , literary critic

''date unknown'' - Roger Morrice , journalist and diarist