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EVENTS

Denis Diderot 's ''Encyclopédie'' is formally suppressed by the French government.

Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch becomes professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University Of Jena .

William Warburton becomes Bishop of Gloucester.

NEW BOOKS

Samuel Johnson - '' The History Of Rasselas, Prince Of Abissinia ''

Gotthold Lessing - ''Fables''

Voltaire - '' Candide ''

NON-FICTION

Adam Smith - ''Theory of Moral Sentiments''

Arthur Young - ''''Reflections on the Present State of Affairs at Home and Abroad''

BIRTHS

January 25 - Robert Burns , poet

March 29 - Alexander Chalmers , journalist

April 27 - Mary Wollstonecraft , feminist writer

November 10 - Friedrich Schiller , poet and dramatist

December 25 - Richard Porson , classical scholar

DEATHS

June 12 - William Collins , poet

July 27 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis , philosopher

August 6 - Eugene Aram , philologist

August 24 - Ewald Christian Von Kleist , poet

September 5 - Lauritz De Thurah , architectural historian

October 7 - Joseph Ames , bibliographer

''probable'' - Anton Wilhelm Amo , philosopher