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• Thomas Percy, who later became bishop of Ireland Dromore, encounters during his time as pastor of Easton Maudit a friend's house on a later named after him, Percy Folio MS named collection of manuscripts of the Middle Ages, which had been recorded in 1650 following a verbal presentation in Lancashire and Cheshire. Since it was used in the house for kindling the fireplace, already missing parts. By binding the manuscript further sections were lost. Among the texts obtained 191 were medieval Arthusromanzen, poetry of the 16th and 17th century and street songs as well as popular and chivalrous adventure stories and ballads about Robin Hood. Samuel Johnson and the poet William Shenstone Percy encourage the publication of the texts that, according to a first edition from 1765 ( Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Cosisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other Pieces of our Earlier Poets ( chiefly of the Lyric Child) together with some few of later date, London ) is not completed until 1867/68 after many years of Percy's edits and other agents. This, however, was the basis for FJ Childs collection The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882-1898 ).
• The English ornithologist and expert on natural history, Gilbert White, was appointed curator of Selborne, Hampshire
• Giacomo Casanova succeed in the night of 31 October to 1 November, the escape from the lead chambers of the Doge's Palace in Venice. His story Histoire de ma fuite of prisons de la République de Venise ( German: story of my escape from the prisons of the Republic of Venice) will be published in 1788.

New releases

Periodicals

• The Literary Magazine published by Dr. Johnson published monthly until 1758. Most book reviews, essays, and magazine articles, in which he argues against the British policy during the Seven Years' War, Johnson wrote himself.

• The Critical Review, ed. by Tobias Smollett, to appear 1817. employee of the Review were among others Samuel Johnson, David Hume, John Hunter and Oliver Goldsmith.

• Moskowskije Vedomosti (Russian Московские Ведомости; German "Moscow News ") appears in Moscow as the first non-governmental newspaper in the Tsarist Empire. The newspaper is only a 1917 made ​​their appearance.

Fiction

• Anonymous - The Life and Memoirs of Mr. Ephraim Tristram Bates
• Thomas Amory - Life of John Buncle
• Vital d ' Audiguier - The memoirs of the Countess of Berci. Taken from the French by the author of the Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox, in two volumes.
• Samuel Richardson (anonymous ) - The Paths of Virtue delineated, youth versions of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison

Non-fiction

• Thomas Birch - The History of the Royal Society of London vol. i
• William Blackstone - An Analysis of the Laws of England
• Edmund Burke - A Vindication of Natural Society
• Alban Butler - The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints
• Theophilus Cibber - Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects
• Johann Matthias Gesner - prima linea isagoges in eruditionem universal
• Eliza Haywood as " Mira " - The Wife
• Leopold Mozart - attempt a thorough Violinschule
• William Payne - An Introduction to the Game of Draughts
• Tobias Smollett - A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages

• Joseph Warton - An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope
• John Wesley - An Address to the Clergy

Poetry

• Isaac Bickerstaffe - Leucothoe
• Richard Owen Cambridge - An Elegy Written in assembly to Empty Room ( parody of Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard )
• Jacob Duche, Pennsylvania: A Poem
• Salomon Gessner - idylls, Inkel and yariko
• William Kenrick - Epistles to Lorenzo
• Edward Moore, Poems, Fables and Plays
• Christopher Pitt - Poems [ ... ] Together with The Jordan, "By the translator of Virgil 's Aeneid Celebrated "
• Christopher Smart - Hymn to the Supreme Being - The Works of Horace

Drama

• Frances Brooke - Virginia
• John Brown - Athelstane
• Samuel Foote - The Englishman return'd from Paris
• David Garrick Catherine and Petruchio
• The Tempest ( opera )

Translations

• James Grieve translated De Medicina by Aulus Cornelius Celsus into English.

Born

Died

• 07 February: Johann Erhard Kapp, German rhetorician and historian († 1696 )
• FEBRUARY 25: Eliza Haywood English writer, actress and publisher (* 1693)
• MARCH 26: Gilbert West, English poet (* 1703)
• March 30: Stephen Duck, English poet (c. 1705)
• May 01: Johann Christian Trömer, French - German dialect poet (* 1897)
• MAY 22: David Mill, German philologist and oriental Reformed theologian (* 1892)
• JUNE 11: César Chesneau Du Marsais, French philosopher, grammarian and rhetorician (* 1676 )
• JUNE 18: Benjamin Gottlieb Gerlach, German educator and author (* 1698 )
• July 17: Johann Friedrich Starck, Prussian Lutheran theologian, pietistic edification (b. 1680)
• August 18: Erdmann Neumeister, German poet and theologian (* 1671)
• AUGUST 27: Johann Gottfried Zeiske, German writer and educator (* 1686)
• DECEMBER 29: Thomas Cooke, English Translator († 1703)
• No date: Thammathibet, poet and viceroy of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (* in the 18th century)