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EVENTS

First appearance of '' Poor Richard's Almanac '' by Benjamin Franklin

NEW BOOKS

''The Lady's Dressing Room'' by Jonathan Swift

Johann Jakob Bodmer 's translation of '' Paradise Lost '' into German prose

''Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain'' by John Horsley

BIRTHS

January 24 - Pierre De Beaumarchais , French writer (died 1799)

February 19 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist)

September 29 - Samuel Musgrave , classical scholar and pamphleteer

''unknown date'' - George Colman The Elder

DEATHS

February 22 - Francis Atterbury

March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden , poet and lexicographer

December 4 - John Gay , English poet and dramatist (born 1685)