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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