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Births:
- January 13 - Richard Hurd
- July 18 - Gilbert White
- October 19 - John Woolman
- Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (1720-1777)
Deaths:
- April 21 - Antoine Hamilton
- August 9 - Simon Ockley
- August 17 - Anne Lefèvre (Madame Dacier)
Events:
- Jonathan Swift began to write Gulliver's Travels.
- Captain Singleton - Daniel Defoe
- Collected Poems - John Gay.
- Memoires of a Cavalier - Daniel Defoe.
- Old Haymarket Theatre opens in London.
- First serialization of novels in newspapers.
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