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EVENTS

Colley Cibber becomes manager of Drury Lane theatre

NEW BOOKS

'' Semele '', an "unacted opera", by William Congreve

''Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge'' by George Berkeley

''Théodicée (`Theodicy')'', by Gottfried Leibniz

''Journal to Stella'' by Jonathan Swift

''Reflections on Learning, showing the Insufficiency thereof in its several particulars, in order to evince the usefulness and necessity of Revelation'' (part 2) by Thomas Baker

''Collection of Controversial Letters'' by George Hickes

''Anfangsgründe aller mathematischen Wissenschaften'' by Christian Wolff (philosopher)

BIRTHS

April 26 , Thomas Reid , Scottish philosophical writer

DEATHS

April 28 - Thomas Betterton , actor

''unknown date'' - Henry Aldrich , theologian and philosopher

''unknown date'' - Louise De La Vallière , later the subject of a novel by Alexandre Dumas