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Events

  • Mai: Carlo Goldoni says in a " tour de force " in the season 1750/51 his impresario Medebach contracted the production of 16 new plays at the Teatro Sant ' Angelo - including some of his best works, in addition to the said La bottega del caffè, The coffee, also Il bugiardo ( The Liar ). Goldoni himself was impressed by the success of his first performed in Mantua on May 2, 1750 piece: " This comedy was a brilliant applause: the union and the contrast of the characters could not fail to impress. The character of the Verläumders was indicated on several well-known people. " One of these people would have been particularly indignant against him and even threatened him with a duel. As it was, however, rather curious about the promised Goldoni 16 pieces in a year, gave the supposedly offended him " magnanimously " life.
  • Weekly meetings of the Encyclopédie and its Encyclopaedists take its origin in the salon by Paul Henri Thiry d' Holbach.
  • Jean -Jacques Rousseau wins the prize of the Academy of Dijon for his Discours sur les sciences et les arts.
  • At the London theaters of the Romeo and Juliet war of competing productions with David Garrick and Anne Bellamy raging at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with Spranger Barry and Susannah Cibber at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
  • After receiving his master's in Aberdeen, Tobias Smollett travels to France, where he gathers material for The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.

New releases

Periodicals

  • March: The Rambler is founded by Edward Cave; followed by 208 issues, written most of Samuel Johnson
  • Henry Brooke - A New Collection of Fairy Tales
  • John Cleland - Fanny Hill
  • Sarah Fielding (attributed ) - The History of Charlotte Summers
  • Louis -Charles de Fougeret Monbron - Margot la ravaudeuse
  • Edward Kimber - The Life and Adventures of Joe Thompson
  • Charlotte Lennox - The Life of Harriot Stuart
  • Robert Paltock - The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins
  • Sarah Scott - The History of Cornelia

Drama

  • Kitty Clive - The Rehearsal, or, Bays in Petticoats
  • Carlo Goldoni - La Bottega di Caffe
  • William Shirley - Edward the Black Prince
  • Voltaire - Oreste
  • William Whitehead - The Roman Father

Poetry

  • Moses Browne - Verses on the late earthquakes: address'd to Great Britain.
  • William Collins - The Passions: An ode
  • Francis Coventry - Penshurst
  • (Published anonymously) An Ode on Martial Virtue - Thomas Cooke
  • Robert Dodsley - The Oeconomy of Human Life
  • Mary Jones, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
  • Frederick II of Prussia - Oeuvres du philosophe de Sans Souci
  • Mary Jones - Miscellanies
  • Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - Zweyte Ode of the trip on the Lake of Zurich
  • Edward Moore - Solomon: a serenata
  • Charlotte Lennox, The Art of coquetry
  • James Thomson, Poems on Several Occasions, posthumously
  • Thomas Warton - The Triumph of Isis
  • Edward Young - The Complaint (aka Night Thoughts )

Non-fiction

  • Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - Aesthetica (Part 1 tape )
  • William Blackstone - An Essay on Collateral consanguinity
  • Moses Browne - The Compleat Angler = or, Contemplative one 's recreation
  • John Campbell - The Present State of Europe
  • Thomas Chapman - An Essay on the Roman senate
  • Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - œuvre (2 vol )
  • Louis -Charles de Fougeret Monbron - Le Cosmopolite ou le Citoyen du Monde, L' univers est une espèce de livre dont on n'a lu que la première page quand on n'a vu que son pays
  • Eliza Haywood - A Present for Women Addicted to Drinking ( about the gin crisis)
  • James Hervey - Theron and Aspasio; Or, A series of dialogues and letters upon the most important subjects ( German translation: Edifying Reflections on the glory of creation in the gardens and fields 3 parts, Hamburg and Leipzig, 1755. ).
  • Francis Hutcheson - Reflections Upon Laughter
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg - The critische Musicus an der Spree
  • Noel- Antoine Pluche - scene of nature, or discussions of the nature and intentions of natural things. . Vienna and Nuremberg, 1750 ( Original title:. Le spectacle de la Nature ou Questions and Answers sur l' histoire naturelle et les sciences from Gellert rezipiert )
  • Montesquieu - Défense de l' Esprit des lois '
  • Laurence Sterne - The Abuses of Conscience
  • Dom Charles Francois Toustain and Dom Rene Prosper Tassin - Nouveau Traite de Diplomatique (1750-1765) ( in six volumes )
  • Madeleine de Puisieux - La Femme à l' homme n'est pas inférieure

Born

  • January 07: Robert Anderson, literary critic († 1803)
  • February 02: Johann Jakob Hottinger, Swiss philologist, translator and writer († 1819)
  • 02 February: Karl Wilhelm Daßdorf, German librarian, writer and publicist ( † 1812)
  • February 13: Johann Ludwig Ambühl, Swiss civil servant and writer († 1800)
  • MARCH 12: Christian Friedrich Sintenis, German Protestant theologian, devotional writer and storyteller.
  • APRIL 24: Johann Gottfried Dyck, German booksellers and writers († 1813)
  • APRIL 24: John Trumbull, American poet at the time of the American War of Independence († 1831)
  • April 30: Friedrich Hildebrand von Einsiedel, German jurist and writer († 1828)
  • MAY 13: Sophia Lee, English writer († 1824)
  • JULY 29: Fabre d' Églantine, French poet, actor, playwright and revolutionary († 1794)
  • AUGUST 20: Julie Clodius, German writer († 1805)
  • 0 September 5: Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet († 1774)
  • September 18: Tomás de Iriarte, Spanish poet of the Enlightenment († 1791)
  • October 21: Christian Jerome Minor, Austrian theater director and editor ( † after 1824)
  • 04 October: Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin, Polish Jesuit and poet († 1807)
  • OCTOBER 21: Juraj Fándly, Slovak writer and priest († 1811)
  • October 31: Alcipe, Portuguese nobles, poet and translator († 1839)
  • 07 November: Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg - Stolberg, German poet, translator and lawyer († 1819)
  • NOVEMBER 10: Christian Friedrich Schröder, German writer († 1800)
  • December 06: David Friedlander, German producer and author († 1834)
  • December 15: Nicolas Gilbert, French poet († 1780)
  • December 17: Elizabeth Craven, British writer († 1828)
  • No date: Benoît- Joseph Marsollier of Vivetières, French writer († 1817)
  • No date: Francesco Gianni Italian improviser († 1822)
  • No date: Shiba Zenko, Japanese writer and actor († 1793)

Died

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