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The comedy The Jews of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing has its world premiere in Berlin.
03 January: In Copenhagen for the first time Kjøbenhavnske Danske post Tidender, the forerunner of today's Danish daily Berlingske Tidende appears.
February 28: For the only time makes the Marquise de Pompadour an exception and takes Alzire their favorites Voltaire a tragedy in the Schedule at the court of Versailles. No single tragedy of Racine or Corneille was in contrast played it. For the repetition of the piece was the mistress of Louis XV. even assert that the author of the respective piece was allowed to be present. This ceremony later learned Voltaire only once. Other playwrights did not achieve this honor since the troupe was stopped for financial reasons a little later.
JULY 24: Denis Diderot was imprisoned for a few weeks in Vincennes: reason was the publication of Pensées sur les philosophiques and Lettre aveugles.
The German poet and Prussian officer Ewald Christian von Kleist was promoted to staff captain.
Oliver Goldsmith graduated with a Bachelor of Arts at Trinity College, Dublin.
September 10: After the death of Émilie du Châtelet, Voltaire accepted the invitation by Frederick II of Prussia, who he will meet in the following summer.

Anonymous - Tittle Tattle (adaptation of Swift's Genteel and Ingenious Conversations )
Carlo Goldoni - La vedova scaltra; La putta Onorata
William Hawkins - Henry and Rosamund
Aaron Hill - Merope
Samuel Johnson - Irene
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - The Jews; Samuel Henzi
Jean -François Marmontel - Aristomène, tragedy
Tobias Smollett - The Regicide
James Thomson - Coriolanus
Voltaire - Nanine

John Brown, On Liberty
William Collins: Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson - James Thomson died in August 1748
" The Passions "

Joseph Ames - Typographical Antiquities
George Berkeley - A Word to the Wise
John Brown - On Liberty
William Rufus Chetwood - A General History of the Stage
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac - Essai sur l' origine of connaissances humaines
Denis Diderot - Lettre sur les aveugles à l' usage de ceux qui voient
David Hartley - Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations
David Hume - Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; Three essays
Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes
William Law - The Spirit of Prayer
Aeschil Nordholm - Jemtlands Djurfänge
Lauritz de Thurah - Den Danske Vitruvius, volume II
Paul Rapin de Thoyras - Short justification or core of the history of England up to the death of Queen Anne.
Henry St. John - Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism
Voltaire - Sermon of cinquante
John Wesley - A Plain Account of the People Called Methodists

JANUARY 22: Matthew Concanen, English poet (* 1701)
Mai: Samuel Boyse, English poet and dramatist (* 1708)
May 09: Solomon Heinrich Vestring, Livonian clergyman and writer, author of the first comprehensive German -Estonian dictionaries ( * 1663 )
June 19: Ambrose Philips, English poet (* 1675)
July 17: Samuel Henzi, Swiss writer, politician and revolutionary (* 1701)
13 August: Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet, lawyer and poetry theorists (* 1719)
September 10: Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, friend of Voltaire and translator of Isaac Newton 's Principia and salonière (* 1706)
SEPTEMBER 19: Johann Friedrich Menz, German philosopher, literary scholar and physicist (* 1673 )
November 20: Beat Ludwig von Muralt, a Swiss representative of the early Enlightenment and radical Pietism (* 1665)

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