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June: The Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d' Alembert -Baptiste together published first volume of the Encyclopédie appears. Up to the completion of this important project of the Enlightenment another 22 years will pass away. Volume II was published in January 1752, Volume III in November 1753, Volume IV, October 1754, Volume V November 1755, Volume VI in October 1756, Volume VII November 1757, Volume VIII to XVII of 1765 to January 1766, and in 1772 the last volume with the panels and copper engravings. In the first version of the work comprised 60 660 articles.
In Vienna, the court poet Pietro Metastasio wrote the poem Il re pastore, the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will serve as the basis for the composition of an opera seria later: Il re pastore (1775 ).
The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse is the first modern cookbook in formal terms.

John Cleland - Memoirs of a Coxcomb
Francis Coventry - The History of Pompey the Little; or, The Life and Adventures of a Lap -Dog
Henry Fielding - Amelia
Eliza Haywood - The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Tobias Smollett - The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

John Arbuthnot - Miscellaneous Works ( posthumous)
Ernst Bengel - demolition of the so-called Brethren, in which the teaching and the whole thing geprüfet, good and evil dabey is distinguished ...
Thomas Birch - The life of Mr. Edmund Spenser
John Gilbert Cooper - cursory Remarks on Mr. Warburton's New Edition of Mr. Pope 's Works
Henry Fielding - An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
James Harris - Hermes
Henry Home Kames - Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Pierre -Thomas -Nicolas Hurtaut - L'Art de péter
John Jortin - Remarks on Ecclesiastical History
Jean -Baptiste de Mirabaud - De l' âme et de son immortalité. ( Full text Part 2)
Louis -Charles de Fougeret Monbron - La Fille de joie, French translation by John Cleland's Fanny Hill
Alexander Pope - The Works of Alexander Pope (ed. William Warburton )
Madeleine de Puisieux - Le Triomphe des dames
Catharine Trotter Cockburn - The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn
Voltaire - Le Siècle de Louis XIV
John Wesley - Serious Thoughts upon the Perseverance of Saints
Benjamin Whichcote - Works

March 21: Johann Heinrich Zedler, Silesian bookseller and publisher in Leipzig ( * 1706)
07 April: Karl Otto Rechenberg, German legal scholar, poet and historian (* 1689)
APRIL 27: Johann Wilhelm Berger, German philosopher, rhetorician and historian (* 1672)
MAY 24: William Hamilton, Scottish poet (* 1665)
October 26: Philip Doddridge, English educator, activist, and writer of hymns. (* 1702)
October 29: Bartholomew Green, printer Boston ( * 1701)
December 12: Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher (* 1678)
No date: Christian Ehrenfried Charisius of Olthoff, Swedish government official, diplomat, Postal Director and playwright (* 1691)
No date: Namiki Sōsuke, Japanese writer (* 1695)

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