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EVENTS

Voltaire contracts Smallpox .

The book collection of Samuel Pepys is transferred to the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge .

NEW BOOKS

''Anderson's Constitutions of the Freemasons''

''Elegy on the deplorable Death of Elizabeth Murray Sister to Sir William Murray of Newtoun barb'rously murdered by her Husband Thomas Kincaid younger of Gogar-Mains, March 29th 1723'' (anonymous broadsheet)

'' Cato's Letters '' by Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard

''William and Margaret'' (poetry) - David Mallet

''A Search into the Nature of Society'' - Bernard De Mandeville

''Knight of the Kirk'' - William Meston

''Works of John Sheffield, Duke Of Buckingham ''

NEW DRAMA

'' The Conscious Lovers '' - Richard Steele

BIRTHS

February 23 - Richard Price , philosopher

February 24 - John Burgoyne , soldier and dramatist

June 20 - Adam Ferguson , philosopher and historian

July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel , French novelist and dramatist (died 1799)

July 17 - Adam Smith - Scottish economist

September 30 - William Hutton , local historian

November 8 - John Byron , English vice-admiral, grandfather of the poet Lord Byron (died 1786)

November 30 - William Livingston , American politician and journalist (died 1790)

DEATHS

January 21 (or June 21 ) - Baron D'Holbach - philosopher, encyclopedist

February 26 - Thomas D'Urfey , dramatist

March 15 - Johann Christian Günther , German poet (born 1695)

May 11 - Jean Galbert De Campistron , dramatist

December 1 - Susannah Centlivre , dramatist

December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, Baron Von Grimm

''date unknown'' - Dimitrie Cantemir , first author in the Romanian Language

''date unknown'' - Marianna Alcoforado , author of ''Letters of a Portuguese Nun''

''date unknown'' - Alexander Selkirk , the inspiration for '' Robinson Crusoe ''