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EVENTS

'' Universal Spectator '' and '' Weekly Journal '' founded by Daniel Defoe and his son-in-law, Henry Baker

'' The Beggar's Opera '' by John Gay first performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields

NEW BOOKS

Alexander Pope - '' The Dunciad ''

NEW DRAMA

Pierre De Marivaux - ''Le Trionphe de Plutus''

Alexis Piron - ''Les Fils ingrats''

POETRY

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - ''Der Messias''

Phillis Wheatley - ''Poems on Various Subjects''

NON-FICTION

Robert Lindsay Of Pitscottie - ''The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565'' (written about 1575, in the Scots Language )

BIRTHS

January 9 - Thomas Warton

September 14 - Mercy Otis Warren

November 10 - Oliver Goldsmith

DEATHS

January 28 - "Stella", inspiration of Jonathan Swift

September 23 - Christian Thomasius , publisher and general author

''date unknown'' - Gabriel Daniel , Jesuit historian