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EVENTS
Voltaire
buys estate at
Ferney
.
''Annual Register'' founded by
Edmund Burke
and
Robert Dodsley
.
Jean-François Marmontel
enters the service of
Madame De Pompadour
.
Samuel Johnson
begins his essay series, ''The Idler''.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
and her family move to Warrington in Cheshire.
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
moves to his final home at Basel, Switzerland.
NEW BOOKS
Claude Adrien Helvétius
- ''De l'Esprit''
Benjamin Franklin
- ''Father Abraham's Sermon''
NEW DRAMA
John Cleland
- ''Tombo-Chiqui, or, The American Savage'' (not produced)
BIRTHS
October 16
-
Noah Webster
December 9
-
Richard Colt Hoare
DEATHS
January 7
-
Allan Ramsay
, poet
March 22
-
Jonathan Edwards
, theologian
December 25
-
James Hervey
, religious writer
''date unknown'' -
Theophilus Cibber
, dramatist and actor, son of
Colley Cibber
