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By the death of Cao Xueqin his novel remains The Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the four classical novels of China, unfinished.

The second volume of plates ( balancing - Charpenterie ) appears indexed by the Catholic Church Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers of Denis Diderot and Louis de Jaucourt. In the same year another tape 2b ( - drapery Charron ) appears.

Voltaire: Traité sur la tolérance. The font was created in the wake of the trial of the Huguenot Jean Calas, who was innocently convicted and executed to death. The process was in revision, and the family Calas was rehabilitated on March 6, 1765. Voltaire calls in his work to tolerance of other faiths and will vehemently stand against religious fanaticism and superstition.

Immanuel Kant: The only possible evidence for a Demonstration of the Existence of God
Under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius the pope critical work De statu ecclesiae et legitima potestate Romani Pontificis liber singularis, which is already in the next year by Pope Clement XIII. Appears on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is set, which can not prevent the spread of Febronianism in Europe. The Auxiliary Bishop of Trier Johann Nikolaus von Honthorst home is years later imposed a revocation after his exposure as a writer.

JANUARY 29: Johann Gottfried Seume, German writer and poet († 1810)
FEBRUARY 14: Johann Martin Usteri, Swiss poet († 1827)
March 9: William Cobbett, English writer († 1835)
MARCH 21: Jean Paul, a German writer († 1825)
June 15: Kobayashi Issa, Japanese Haiku poet († 1828)
September 2: Caroline Schelling, German writer ( "femme de lettres " ) ( † 1809)
OCTOBER 20: Joachim perinet, Austrian actor and writer († 1816)

JANUARY 29: Johan Ludvig, Danish chancellor, art and literature collector ( * 1694 )
JANUARY 29: Louis Racine, French poet (* 1692 )

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