| | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, and La caduta dei Decemviri
| | PH : | Peter the Great, calling himself Peter Michailoff, sets out on a year-and-a-half journey to Prussia, Holland, England and Vienna to study European ways of life | | PH : | Charles XI, King of Sweden, dies; succeeded by Charles XII | | PH : | Augustus, Elector of Saxony, converted to Roman Catholicism, elected King of Poland in succession to Jan III | | PH : | In Treaty of Ryswick: France recognises William III as King of England | | PH : | China conquers western Mongolia | | ED : | Pierre Bayle: Dictionnaire historique et critique, 2 vols | | ED : | William Wotton: Reflections on Ancient and Modern Learning | | DL : | Last remains of Maya civilisation destroyed by Spanish in Yucatan | | RP : | Daniel Defoe: An Essay Upon Projects, recommending income tax | | DL : | Sedan chair a popular means of transportation | | DL : | Court of Versailles becomes model for European courts | | DL : | Whitehall Palace, London, burns down | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal born 18 October | | VA : | William Hogarth born 10 November |
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| | PH : | Rebellion of Czar Peter's praetorian guard in Moscow; leaders executed | | PH : | Elector Ernest August of Hanover dies; his eldest son George Louis, future King George I of England, becomes electoral prince | | DL : | Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau introduces goose-stepping and iron ramrods in Prussian army | | RP : | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) founded | | ED : | Bibliotheca Casanatense founded in Rome | | RP : | Algernon Sidney: Discourses Concerning Government (posth.) | | DL : | The General Society (New East India Trading Company) founded in London | | DL : | Paper manufacturing begins in N. America | | DL : | Tax on beards in Russia | | DL : | Mrs. White's Chocolate House opens in London, soon to become headquarters of Tory Party |
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| | LT : | John Dryden: Fables | | M : | Johann Pachelbel : Hexachordum Apollinis
six arias with variations for organ or harpsichord
| | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Self-Portrait as a Huntsman | | PH : | Peace of Karlowitz signed by Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice with Turkey | | PH : | Denmark and Russia sign mutual defence pact | | PH : | Treaty of Preobrazhenskoe signed by Denmark, Russia, Poland, and Saxony for partition of Swed. empire | | PH : | Christian V, King of Denmark, dies; succeeded by Frederick IV | | RP : | Richard Bentley: Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris | | RP : | Gilbert Burnet: Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles | | ST : | William Dampier explores northwest coast of Australia | | ST : | Pierre Lemoyne founds first European settlement in Louisianna, at Fort Maurepas | | DL : | Billingsgate, London, becomes a market | | DL : | Peter the Great decrees that New Year in Russia will begin on January 1 instead of September 1 | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin born 2 November |
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| | PH : | The Great Northern War | | PH : | King Charles II of Spain dies, setting the stage for the War of the Spanish Succession | | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Lesbina e Adolfo
| | LT : | Development of the Kabuki Theatre in Japan | | RP : | Pope Innocent XII dies; Gian Francesco Albani becomes Pope Clement XI | | DL : | Unmarried women taxed in Berlin | | ED : | Berlin Academy of Science founded | | M : | Joseph Saveur measures and explains vibrations of musical tones | | LT : | John Dryden dies 30 April |
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| | PH : | Act of Settlement in Britain. This settlement establishes the Hanoverian Monarchy | | PH : | War of Spanish Succession | | PH : | Prince Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg crowns himself Frederick I "King of Prussia" | | ED : | University of Venice founded | | ED : | Yale College founded | | M : | Music publisher Henry Playford establishes a series of weekly concerts at Oxford | | RP : | Father Francisco Ximénes translates sacred national book of the Quiché Indians of Guatemala, Popul Vah | | RP : | Benjamin Whichcote: Several Discourses; Moral and Religious Aphorisms | | ED : | Jeremy Collier: The Great historical, Geographical, Genealogical, and Political Dictionary 2 vols. | | PH : | James II of England dies; Louis XIV recognises James Edward as King James III |
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| | VA : | Pietro Longhi born | | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Motet, Judicium Salomonis
('Solomon's Judgement')
| | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Mass, Assumpta est Maria
('The Assumption of Mary')
| | VA : | Antoine Coypel : Venus Imploring Jupiter in Favour of Aeneas | | DL : | Serfdom abolished in Denmark | | DL : | The Daily Courant, first daily newspaper issued in London | | ED : | Jesuit college founded in Breslau | | DL : | Asiento Guinea Company founded for slave trade between Africa and America | | VA : | Japanese painter Ogata Korin unites the two imperial schools of Japanese painting - Kano and Yamato | | RP : | Armenian Priest Mekhitar of Sebaste founds in Constantinople Order of the Mekhitarists, Roman Catholic Armenian monks | | RP : | Cotton Mather: Magnalia Christi Americana, ecclesiastical history of New England | | RP : | Daniel Defoe: The Shortest Way with Dissenters | | LT : | Edward Busshe: The Art of English Poetry | | PH : | Rebellion of Protestant peasants, "Camisards", in Cévennes | | LT : | Earliest form of English pantomime given at Drury Lane, London | | PH : | William III dies, succeeded by Queen Anne GO ! | | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli born 15 August |
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| | PH : | Treaty of Methuen signed by Britain and Portugal | | DL : | Peter the Great lays foundations of St. Petersburg | | ST : | Isaac Newton elected President of the Royal Society | | PH : | Archduke Charles proclaimed King of Spain in Madrid | | ED : | Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Classical Dictionary | | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto born | | VA : | François Boucher born 29 September |
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| | DL : | Earliest subscription library in Berlin | | ST : | Isaac Newton: Optics, defence of the theory of light | | ST : | John Harris : Lexicon technicum, encyclopaedia of the sciences | | ED : | Dictionnaire de Trévoux, of terms used in arts and sciences, published by the Jesuits at Trévoux | | PH : | Augustus II of Poland deposed, Stanislas Leszczynski elected King Stanislas I | | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier dies 24 February | | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour born 5 September |
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| | PH : | Turkish Authority overthrown in Tunis | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach :
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, for organ
| | ST : | Royal Observatory, Berlin, founded | | LT : | His Majesty's Theatre opens in London | | ST : | Edmund Halley correctly predicts the return in 1758 of the comet seen in 1682 | | PH : | The Emperor Leopold I dies; succeeded by his eldest son, Joseph I | | VA : | Charles-André van Loo born 15 February |
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| | M : | Tomaso Albinoni : Opera, Griselda
| | ST : | Olous Römer's catalogue of astronomical observations | | RP : | Mathew Tindal: Rights of the Christian Church | | PH : | Peace of Altrandstadt: Augustus renouces Polish throne, recognises King Stanislas I | | M : | Johann Pachelbel dies 7 March |
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| | PH : | Act of Union, Scotland and England become one country | | PH : | Death of Aurangzeb leads to the disintegration of the Mughal Empire | | M : | Great German organ builder Gottfried Silbermann builds first organ at Frauenstein, Saxony | | ED : | Edward Lhuyd: Archeologica Britannica, on Celtic language | | RP : | Isaac Watts: Hymns and Spiritual Songs | | PH : | Aurangzeb, Mogul Emperor of Hindustan dies; succeeded by Bahadur Shah | | PH : | "Perpetual Alliance" signed between Prussia and Sweden | | PH : | King Peter II of Portugal dies; succeeded by John V | | M : | Dietrich Buxtehude dies 9 May |
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| | M : | Tomaso Albinoni : Opera, Vespetta e Pimpione
| | ED : | Professorship of poetry founded at Oxford University | | RP : | Jeremy Collier: The Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain | | ED : | Bernard de Montfaucon: Paleographia Graeca | | LT : | First German theatre opens in Vienna | | DL : | British East India Company and New East India Company merged | | PH : | Peter the Great divides Russia into eight government districts to ease administration | | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni born 25 January |
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| | LT : | Alexander Pope: Pastorals | | M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Agrippina
| | DL : | First Russian prisoners sent to Siberia | | DL : | First Copyright Act in Britain | | M : | Invention of the pianoforte | | RP : | John Strype: Annals of the Reformation | | PH : | Ienobe becomes Shogun in Japan | | PH : | 14,000 inhabitants of the Palatinate emigrate to North America | | PH : | Peace negotiations at The Hague |
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| | RP : | George Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | | LT : | The Examiner, literary periodical, issued for first time | | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life with Dog and Game | | VA : | Sir James Thornhill : The Apotheosis of Romulus | | RP : | William King: An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes | | RP : | Leibniz: Théodicée (God Created the best of all possible worlds) | | RP : | Cotton Mather: Essays to Do Good | | DL : | English South Sea Company founded | | VA : | Jakob Christoph Le Blon invents three-colour printing | | DL : | Porcelain factory at Meissen, Saxony, founded |
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| | LT : | Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism | | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life with Dead Hare and Fruit | | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life (Summer) | | PH : | War between Russia and Turkey | | PH : | Joseph I dies is ultimately succeeded by his brother Charles VI, father of Maria Theresa | | RP : | Francis Atterbury: Representation of the State of Religion | | ED : | Berlin Academy started | | RP : | Anthony Ashley Cooper: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times | | ED : | Thomas Maddox: The History of Antiquities of the Exchequer | | RP : | William Whiston: Primitive Christianity Revived | | VA : | London Academy of Arts established under Geoffrey Kneller | | M : | Clarinet for first time in an orchestra (in J.A.Hasse's opera Croesus) | | M : | Tuning fork invented (supposedly by John Shore) |
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| | ST : | The First Industrial Revolution begins when Newcomen's Steam Engine
is installed at the Dudley Castle Coal Mine | | LT : | Alexander Pope: early version of The Rape of the Lock | | PH : | Peace congress opens at Utrecht | | PH : | Treaty of Aarau ends Swiss war | | PH : | War of Succession between Shah Bahadur's four sons in India | | ED : | Jonathan Swift: A Proposal for Correcting the English Language | | ED : | Académie des sciences, belles lettres et arts, Bordeaux, founded | | ED : | Biblioteca nacional, Madrid, founded | | ST : | Cotton Mather begins his Curiosa Americana | | RP : | Last execution for witchraft in England | | DL : | Slave revolts in New York | | VA : | Francesco Guardi born 5 October |
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| | PH : | The Pragmactic Sanction by Charles VI, allowing Maria Theresa to become the Monarch of Austria | | DL : | Asentio Treaty signed by Britain and Spain. This treaty begins the most active period of the British slave trade | | DL : | King Friedrich I dies and his son Friedrich Wilhelm becomes King of Prussia | | LT : | Alexander Pope: Windsor Forest | | M : | François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin
Book I
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Canata
No.208 ('Where Sheep May Safely Graze)
| | PH : | King Frederick I of Prussia dies; succeeded by Frederick William I | | PH : | Peace of Adrianople between Turkey and Russia | | PH : | Pragmatic Sanction issued by the Emperor Charles VI states female right of succession in Hapsburg domains | | PH : | An infant, Ietsugu, becomes Shogun of Japan | | LT : | Scriblerus Club founded in London by Swift, Pope, Congreve, and others | | RP : | Arthur Collier: Clavis Universalis, or A New Inquiry After Truth | | RP : | Fénelon: Traité de l'existence et des attributs de Dieu | | RP : | Abbé Saint Pierre: Projet pour la paix perpétuelle | | ED : | Spanish Royal Academy, Madrid, founded | | M : | School of Dance established at Paris Opéra | | ST : | Board of Longitude in England | | ST : | Roger Cotes revises Newton's Principia | | DL : | Pigtails introduced in Prussian Army | | PH : | 11 April - The Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War | | VA : | Allan Ramsay born 13 October |
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| | PH : | George I of Hanover became King of England | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Little Organ Book
| | PH : | Peace of Rastatt between France and the Holy Roman Empire | | PH : | Queen Anne of England dies; succeeded by George Louis, elector of Hanover, as King George I | | PH : | Peace of Baden: France keeps Strasbourg and Alsace | | RP : | Gottfried Arnold: Unpartheyische Kirchen-und Ketzer-Historie | | ED : | Worcester College, Oxford, founded | | ST : | D.G. Fahrenheit constructs mercury thermometer with temperature scale | | RP : | Witch trials abolished in Prussia | | M : | C.P.E. Bach born 8 March | | VA : | Richard Wilson born 1 August | | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet born 14 August |
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| | PH : | The First Jacobite uprising | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau born | | M : | François Couperin : Concerts Royaux
| | M : | François Couperin : Trois Leçons de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint
for voice and basso continuo
motets for voice and instruments, "dans le style de Charpentier"
| | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Jupiter & Antiope | | PH : | First Parliament of George I opens | | PH : | Louis XIV of France dies; succeeded by his great-grandson Louis XV (age 5) | | PH : | Jacobite rebellion in Scotland | | PH : | Mir Abdullah becomes ruler in Kandahar | | RP : | Isaac Watts: Divine Songs for Children | | VA : | Early beginnings of rococo | | LT : | Vaudevilles, popular musical comedies, appear in Paris | | ST : | British mathematician Brook Taylor invents the calculus of finite differences | | VA : | English painter and architect William Kent "frees the English garden from formality" |
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| | VA : | Joseph Marie Vien born | | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Portrait of Pater | | PH : | The Emperor Charles VI declares war on Turkey | | PH : | Treaty of Westminster between England and the Emperor | | PH : | Yoshimune becomes Shogun of Japan | | RP : | Christian religious teaching prohibited in China | | M : | Couperin: L'Art de toucher le clavecin | | DL : | Scot. economist John Law establishes the Banque générale in France | | DL : | Royal Regiment of Artillary founded |
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| | LT : | Alexander Pope: Collected works | | M : | François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin
Book II
| | M : | George Frideric Handel :
Chandos Anthems
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Instrumental, Water Music
| | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : L'Assemblée dans un parc | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of Peter I | | PH : | Mongols occupy Lhasa | | RP : | Cardinal de Retz: Mémoires (posth.) | | ST : | Inoculation against smallpox introduced in England | | DL : | Mother Grand Lodge of Freemasons established in London | | DL : | School attendance in Prussia made compulsory | | M : | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz born 19 June |
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| | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Mezzetin | | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Il trionfo dell'onore ovvero Il dissoluto pentito
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Pastoral Opera, Acis and Galatea
| | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Pilgrims Leaving
the Isle of Cythera | | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Gilles as Pierrot | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini : Apollo | | PH : | Peter the Great has his son and heir, Alexis, murdered | | PH : | Peace of Passarowitz ends war between the Empire and Turkey | | PH : | Quadruple Alliance signed by France, the Empire, England, and Holland | | PH : | England declares war on Spain | | ED : | Accademia dei Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti founded at Palermo | | ED : | Philibert-Joseph Le Roux: Dictionnaire comique, satryique, critque, burlesque, libre, et proverbial | | ED : | London Society of Antiquaries founded | | ST : | English inventor Sir Thomas Lombe patents machine which makes thrown silk | | ED : | Collegiate School of America transfers to new site in New Haven, and is renamed Yale University | | DL : | First bank notes in England |
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| | PH : | France declares war on Spain | | PH : | Liechtenstein becomes independent principalilty | | PH : | Peace of Stockholm between Sweden and Hanover | | PH : | Ireland declared inseparable from England | | PH : | Mohammed Shah, grandson of Bahadur Shah, becomes the Great Mogul | | RP : | Jesuits expelled from Russia | | M : | Dimitrie Cantemir writes first book on Turkish music, Tratat de musica Turcéasea | | DL : | The Boston Gazette founded | | DL : | Oriental Company founded in Vienna to trade in the East | | DL : | Westminster Hospital, London, founded | | DL : | First cricket match: "Londoners" vs. "Kentish Men" |
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| | VA : | Nicolas Lancret : Fete in a Wood | | M : | George Frideric Handel : Harpsichord Suite
No.5
| | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : A Halt During the Chase | | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Italian Comedians | | PH : | Treaty of Stockholm between Sweden and Prussia | | PH : | Ulrica, Queen of Sweden, abdicates; succeeded by her husband Frederick, Prince of Hesse-Cassel | | PH : | Treaty of Fredericksborg between Sweden and Denmark | | DL : | "South Sea Bubble", English speculation craze, bursts | | PH : | Pragmatic Sanction recognised by estates of Upper and Lower Austria | | PH : | Tibet becomes a Chinese protectorate | | LT : | Old Haymarket theatre opens in London | | LT : | First serialisation of novels in newspapers | | ED : | Bernard de Montfaucon: L'Antiquité expliquée | | DL : | Palatinate court moved from Heidelberg to Mannheim | | DL : | Wallpapers becomes fashionable in England | | DL : | First yacht club established at Cork Harbour, Ireland | | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto born 30 January | | VA : | Giovanni Battista Piranesi born 4 October |
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| | PH : | Treaty of Nystad signed by Russia and Sweden, ends the Great Northern War | | ST : | Dutch Navigator Jacob Roggeveen discovers Samoa and Easter Island | | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, La Griselda
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Brandenburg Concertos
| | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : L'Enseigne de Gersaint | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Still life with Fruit
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Dead Wolf
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Dead Roe | | PH : | Peter I proclaimed Emperor of All the Russians | | PH : | China suppresses Formosa revolt | | ED : | Nathaniel Bailey: An Universal Etymologycal English dictionary | | RP : | Michele Angelo Conti elected Pope Innocent XIII in succession to Pope Clement XI | | ED : | Johann Theodor Jablonski of Danzig publishes his Allgemeines Lexikon, first short encyclopaedia | | DL : | Swiss immigrants introduced rifles into America | | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau dies 18 July |
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| | M : | François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin
Book III
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Well-Tempered Clavier,
first book
| | M : | Tomaso Albinoni : 12 Concertos
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Allegory of Europe | | PH : | Mir Mahmud conquers Afghanistan and becomes Shah | | DL : | Austrian East India Company founded | | PH : | With Shih Tsung the Yung Cheng dynasty accedes in China | | PH : | Hernhut founded as Moravian settlement in Saxony by Count Zinzendorf | | VA : | James Gibbs builds St. Martin-in-the-fields, London | | M : | Hohann Metheson: Critica Musica, on musical criticism | | M : | Rameau: Traité de l'harmonie | | DL : | British Parliament forbids journalists to report debates | | DL : | Workhouse Test Act for care of poor | | VA : | Antoine Coypel dies 7 January |
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| | VA : | Gavin Hamilton born | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Cantata
No.147 (including 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring')
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : St. John Passion
| | VA : | François Le Moyne : Perseus and Andromeda | | VA : | François Le Moyne : Hunting Picnic | | VA : | Jean-François de Troy : The Alarm | | PH : | Louis XV attains majority | | PH : | Treaty of Charlottenburg between England and Prussia | | PH : | Prussia establishes a ministry of war, finance, and domains | | ED : | T'u Shu Chi Ch'eng, Chinese encyclopaedia | | ED : | Lodovico Antonio Muratori: Rerum italicarum scriptores, collection of medieval historical material | | VA : | Sir Joshua Reynolds born 16 July |
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| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Giulio Cesare in Egitto
('Julius Caesar in Egypt')
| | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Dog Guarding Game near a Rosebush | | VA : | Nicolas Lancret : The Seat of Justice in
the Parliament of Paris | | VA : | François Le Moyne : Hercules and Omphale
| | VA : | François Le Moyne : Bather | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Still Life with a Monkey, Fruit and Flowers | | PH : | Philip V of Spain abdicates; his successor Luis I dies, Philip King again | | PH : | Czar Peter the Great crowns his wife, Catherine, Czarina | | LT : | Longman's the oldest English publishing house still extant, founded | | ED : | John Oldmixon: A Critical History of England | | ED : | Professorships of modern history and languages founded at Oxford and Cambridge | | M : | Three Choirs Festival founded for Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester | | ED : | Daniel Defoe: A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain | | DL : | Gin drinking becomes popular in Great Britain | | DL : | Paris Bourse opens | | VA : | George Stubbs born 24 August |
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| | PH : | Peter the Great, King of Russia dies | | PH : | Peter the Great of Russia dies; succeeded by his wife Catherine | | PH : | Treaty of Vienna guarantees the Pragmatic Sanction | | PH : | Louis XV of France marries Maria Leszczynska of Poland | | PH : | Ashraf, Shah of Afghanistan, succeeds Mahmud in Persia | | RP : | Frances Hutcheson: An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue | | M : | J.J.Fux: Gradus ad Parnassum, treatise on counterpoint | | M : | First public concert given in Paris | | M : | Prague opera house (Standetheater) founded | | ST : | Guillaume Delisle "Map of Europe" | | ED : | St. Petersburg Academy of Science founded by Catherine I | | DL : | George I revives Military Order of the Bath | | DL : | The New York Gazette issued | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze born 21 August | | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti dies 22 October |
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| | M : | François Couperin : Les Nations
4 grand Sonatas
| | VA : | François Le Moyne : The Continence of Scipio | | VA : | Jean-François de Troy : Diana at Rest | | PH : | Alliances between Empire and Russia against Turkey | | RP : | St. John of the Cross canonised | | RP : | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim: Institutiones historiae ecclesiasticae | | DL : | First circulating library established by Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh |
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| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : St. Mathew Passion
| | PH : | Catherine, Russian Czarina, dies; Peter II becomes Czar | | RP : | American Philosophical Society founded in Philadelphia | | RP : | John Balguy: The Foundation of Moral Goodness | | ST : | Stephen Hales: Vegetable Staticks | | ST : | Coffee first planted in Brazil | | DL : | Miscellanies, satirical periodical issued by Pope, Swift, and Dr. Arbuthnot | | DL : | Quakers demand abolition of slavery | | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough born 14 May |
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| | ST : | Danish Navigator Vitus Bering explores the Bering Straits | | LT : | Alexander Pope: The Dunciad | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin : The Ray
| | PH : | Treaty of Berlin between the Emperor Charles VI and Frederick William of Prussia | | ED : | Ephraim Chambers: Cyclopaedia, or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences | | RP : | William Law: A Serious Call to Devout and Holy Life | | RP : | Jonathan Swift: A Short View of the State of Ireland | | ST : | Dutch explorer Vitus Behring discovers Behring Strait | | ST : | James Bradley discovers aberration of light of fixed stars | | DL : | Madrid Lodge of Freemasons founded; soon suppressed by Inquisition | | VA : | Anton Raphael Mengs born 22 March |
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| | PH : | Cathrine II is born
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Suite
No.3 in D (including 'Air on the G String')
| | VA : | Charles-André van Loo : Aeneas Carrying Anchises | | VA : | François Le Moyne : Pygmalion Seeing His Statue Come to Life | | PH : | Treaty of Seville between France, Spain, and England | | RP : | Thomas Sherlock: A Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus | | ED : | Academia de buenas letras, Barcelona, founded | | DL : | The Emperor Yung Cheng prohibits opium smoking in China |
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| | PH : | Maratha government in India | | M : | François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin
Book IV
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Louis XV Hunting Stag in the Forest of Saint-Germain | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater : Young Girls Bathing | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini : Allegory of Sculpture | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini : Allegory of Painting | | PH : | Czar Peter of Russia dies; succeeded by Anne, daughter of Czar Ivan V | | PH : | Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia imprisoned by his father | | PH : | Sultan Ahmad XII of Turkey deposed; succeeded by Mahmoud I | | PH : | Frederick IV of Denmark dies; succeeded by Christian VI | | PH : | Ashraf, Shah of Persia, murdered | | RP : | Pope Benedict XIII dies; Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini becomes Pope Clement XII | | RP : | Mathew Tindal: Christianity as Old as the Creation | | RP : | John and Charles Wesley found Methodist sect at Oxford | | ED : | Martin Wright: Introduction to the Law of Tenures, on English land law | | DL : | Edinburgh Royal Infirmary founded | | DL : | Reduction of slavery in China under the Emperor Yung Cheng |
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| | PH : | The infamous Rebecca Incident near Havanna Cuba sets the stage for the War of Jenkin's Ear | | LT : | Alexander Pope: Moral Essays | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Magnificat
in D Major
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin : A "Lean Diet" with Cooking Utensils | | PH : | Treaty of Vienna between England, Holland, Spain, and the Holy Roman Emperor | | PH : | Russia, Prussia, and the emperor agree to oppose Stanislas I in Poland | | RP : | Ralph Cudworth: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality | | RP : | Mass expulsion of Protestants from Salzburg | | ED : | Voltaire: Histoire de Charles XII | | ST : | Dr John Arbuthnot: An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments, advocates dieting | | DL : | 10 Downing Street, Westminster, London residence of British prime ministers, built |
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| | LT : | Poor Richards Almanac first appears in print | | VA : | Giambattista Tiepolo : The Education
of the Virgin Mary | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal : The Basin of San Marco | | RP : | Conrad Beissel founds Seventh Day Baptists (Ephrata Community) in Germantown, Pa | | RP : | George Berkeley: The Minute Philosopher | | RP : | The Moravian Brethren start missionary work | | ED : | J.J.Moser: Foundations of International Law | | M : | Academie of Ancient Music founded in London | | M : | Covent Garden Opera House, London, opened | | M : | J.G. Walther: Musik-Lexikon, first of its kind | | ST : | Hermann Boerhaave: Elements of Chemistry | | DL : | Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanack issued | | M : | Joseph Haydn born 1 April | | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard born 5 April |
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| | VA : | Giambattista Tiepolo : The Banquet of Cleopatra | | PH : | The War of the Polish Succession | | LT : | Alexander Pope: Imitations of Horace | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater : The Fair at Bezons | | VA : | Jean-François de Troy : Allegory of Music | | PH : | War of Polish Succession begins | | PH : | France declares war against Emperor Charles VI | | RP : | Alexander Pope: Essay on Man | | DL : | Latin language abolished in English courts | | DL : | The Serpentine, Hyde Park, laid out | | VA : | Hubert Robert born 22 May | | M : | François Couperin dies 12 September |
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| | VA : | Giambattista Tiepolo : The Triumph of
Zephyr and Flora | | LT : | Alexander Pope: Essay on Man | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach :
Coffeehouse Canatas
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Christmas Oratorio
| | PH : | War breaks out between Turkey and Persia | | PH : | Anglo-Russian trade agreement | | RP : | Mme de Lambert, in her Avis d'une Mère à sa Fille, recommends university education for women | | ED : | University of Göttingen founded by King George I | | RP : | The Koran translated into English by George Sale | | VA : | Sir James Thornhill dies 13 May | | VA : | Joseph Wright of Derby born 3 September | | VA : | George Romney born 15 December |
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| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal : Piazza San Marco | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Italian Concerto
| | VA : | Jean-François de Troy : The Lunch of Oysters | | PH : | End of the Turko-Persian war | | M : | Imperial ballet school at St. Petersburg | | ST : | Linnaeus: Systema naturae | | ST : | French scientist Benoît de Maillet: Telliamed, evolutionary hypothesis | | DL : | The Boston Evening Post issued | | DL : | Royal Burgess Golfing Society, Edinburgh, founded |
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| | PH : | Russia and Austria at war with Turkey (ends 1739)
| | PH : | Chi'en Lung becomes Emperor of China
| | VA : | William Hogarth : The Pool of Bethesda | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater : The Chinese Hunt | | PH : | Stanislas I abdicates as King of Poland | | PH : | Theodor von Neuhof elected King of Corsica | | PH : | Chi-en Lung becomes Emperor of China | | PH : | War between Russia and Turkey | | RP : | Joseph Butler: Analogy of Religion | | RP : | English statutes against witchcraft repealed | | RP : | Pope Clement XII condemns Freemasonry | | RP : | William Warburton: The Alliance between Church and State | | DL : | Manufacture of glass begins in Venice at Murano | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater dies 25 July |
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| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Berenice
including famous 'Minuet'
| | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni : The Triumph of Venice | | VA : | Charles-André van Loo : The Grand Turk Giving a
Concert to his Mistress | | VA : | Charles-André van Loo : Halt During the Hunt | | VA : | François Le Moyne : Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy | | VA : | Jean-François de Troy : A Hunting Meal | | PH : | Last of the Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, dies; Francis, Duke of Lorraine, husband of Maria Theresa, receives Tuscany; Stanislas of Poland acquires Lorraine | | LT : | Licensing Act restricts number of London theatres, and all plays before public performance to be subjected to censorship of Lord Chamberlain | | LT : | Ignacio de Luzán Claramunt de Suelves y Gurrea: Poética, laying down classic rules in Spanish literary composition | | RP : | Alexander Cruden: Concordance of the Holy Scripture | | RP : | Vincent de Paul canonised by Pope Clement XII | | RP : | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Nonsense of Common Sense | | ED : | William Oldys: The British Librarian | | RP : | John Wesley: Psalms and Hymns, published in Charleston | | ST : | René de Réaumur: History of the Insects | | VA : | François Le Moyne dies 4 June |
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| | VA : | William Hogarth : Lord Hervey and his friends | | PH : | Treaty of Vienna Closes the War of Polish Succession between France and Austria. Lorraine guaranteed to France
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Serse
(Xerxes), including 'Largo'
| | VA : | Nicolas Lancret : The Marriage Contract | | VA : | Nicolas Lancret : Summer | | VA : | Nicolas Lancret : Winter | | DL : | Papal bull "In eminenti" against Freemasonry | | ED : | Lodovico Antonnio Muratori: Antiquites Italicae | | ST : | Daniel Bernoilli: Hydrodynamica, pressure and velocity of fluids | | DL : | First cuckoo clocks in Black Forest district | | VA : | Benjamin West born 10 October |
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| | RP : | The Methodist Church founded by John Wesley
| | PH : | War of Jenkins Ear begins
| | PH : | Nadir Shah sacks Delhi | | M : | George Frideric Handel : Oratorio, Saul
including 'Dead March'
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Oratorio, Israel in Egypt
| | VA : | François Boucher : Morning Coffee | | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Portrait of Louis, Grand Dauphin of France
| | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of Louis Tocque | | PH : | Sack of Delhi by Persians under Nadir Shah | | RP : | Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia: Anti-Machiavell, against Machiavelli's philosophy of monarchy | | RP : | David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature | | RP : | Moravian Church founded in America by Spengenberg | | ST : | American astronomer John Winthrop published his Notes on Sunspots | | DL : | Foundling Hospital established in London |
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| | VA : | William Hogarth : The Shrimp Girl | | PH : | War of the Austrian Succession | | VA : | François Boucher : The Toilet of Venus | | M : | George Frideric Handel : 12 Concerti Grossi
| | M : | Tomaso Albinoni : 6 Violin Sonatas
| | VA : | William Hogarth : Captain Coram | | VA : | Giovanni Batista Piazetta : A Boy Holding a Pear | | VA : | Giovanni Batista Piazetta : The Soothsayer | | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Marie Leczinska, Queen of France
| | PH : | Frederick William I of Prussia dies; succeeded by his son Frederick II, the Great | | PH : | Charles VI dies; succeeded by his daughter Maria Theresa | | PH : | Anne, daughter of Peter the Great dies; succeeded by Czar Ivan VI | | RP : | Pope Clement XII dies; succeeded by Cardinal Prospero Lambertini as Pope Benedict XIV | | ST : | Louis Castel: Optique des colours | | ED : | University of Pennsylvania founded | | ED : | Berlin Academy of Science founded by Frederick the Great | | DL : | Frederick the Great introduces freedom of press and freedom of worship in Prussia | | DL : | Smallpox epidemic in Berlin | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau : Portrait of a Boy with a Book
| | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli : Bacchanal | | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli : The Rape of Europa |
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| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini dies | | M : | George Frideric Handel : Oratorio, Messiah
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Goldberg Variations
| | VA : | François Boucher : Leda & the Swan | | PH : | Maria Theresa accepts crown of Hungary | | PH : | Czar Ivan VI deposed and imprisoned; Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, becomes Czarina | | LT : | Thomas Betterton: A History of the English Stage | | LT : | Founding of Burgtheater, Vienna | | RP : | Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, sermon delivered at Enfield, Mass. | | RP : | David Hume: Essays, Moral and Political | | ST : | Botanical Garden, Upsala, founded by Linnaeus | | DL : | Highway Act in England to improve roads | | ED : | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, England, opened | | VA : | Henry Fuseli born 7 February | | M : | Antonio Vivaldi dies 28 July |
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| | PH : | Charles Albert, Elector of Bavaria, elected and crowned emperor as Charles VII | | PH : | Peace of Berlin ends First Silesian War | | RP : | Etienne Fourmont: Grammatica Sinaica | | ED : | Charles Viner: Legal Encyclopaedia | | ST : | Swiss astronomer Anders Celsius invents centigrade thermometer | | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Prussian
Sonatas
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Well-Tempered Clavier,
second book
| | VA : | William Hogarth : The Graham Children | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Marie Adelaide of France as Flora
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| | VA : | William Hogarth : Characters and Caricaturas | | PH : | Maria Theresa crowned at Prague | | PH : | Alliance between Austria and Saxony | | RP : | Pogroms in Russia | | ST : | French geographer Jean d'Anville "Map of Italy" | | ED : | University of Erlangen, Germany, founded | | M : | Luigi Boccherini born 19 February | | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes dies 20 April | | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld born 20 June | | VA : | Nicolas Lancret dies 14 September |
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| | PH : | King George's War (ends 1748) American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession GO ! | | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Württemberg
Sonatas
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Semele
| | VA : | Pietro Longhi : The Display of the Elephant | | PH : | France declares war on England and on Maria Theresa | | PH : | Second Silesian War begins | | RP : | George Berkeley: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries | | RP : | Ruling Arab family Sa-Udi adopts teachings of Abd-al-Wahhab, becomes Wahhabi | | M : | Madrigal Society, London, founded | | ST : | Jean d'Alembert: Traité de l'équilibre et du mouvement des fluides | | LT : | Alexander Pope dies 21 May |
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| | PH : | Jacobite Rebellion | | VA : | François Boucher : Diana's
Return from the Hunt | | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni : Achilles at the
Court of Lycomedes | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of Louis XV of France
| | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Marie Adelaide of France as Diana
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Swan Attacked by a Dog | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau : A Girl with a Kitten | | PH : | Emperor Charles VII dies; Francis, husband of Maria Theresa, elected Holy Roman Emperor, first of the Lorraine-Tuscany line | | PH : | Peace of Dresden: Prussia recognises Pragmatic Sanction but retains Silesia | | PH : | Ishege becomes Shogun of Japan | | RP : | Philip Doddridge: The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul | | ST : | Charles Bonnet: Traité d'insectologie | | ST : | Ewald Jurgen von Kleist invents the capacitor (Leydon Jar), a fundamental electrical circuit element | | DL : | Earliest Oddfellows Lodge in England | | M : | The quadrille becomes a fashionable dance in France |
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| | PH : | Alliance between Russia and Austria against Prussia | | PH : | Philip V of Spain dies; succeeded by Ferdinand VI | | PH : | Christian VI of Denmark dies; succeeded by Frederick V | | RP : | Denis Diderot: Pensées philosophiques | | RP : | Jonathan Edwards: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections | | ST : | Jean-Etienne Guettard draws first geological map of France | | ED : | College of New Jersey founded; becomes Princeton University, 1896 | | DL : | Wearing of tartans prohibited in Great Britain | | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : Cornard Wood | | VA : | Pietro Longhi : The Tooth Puller | | VA : | Francisco José de Goya Y Lucientes born 30 March |
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| | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto : View of Verona and the River Adige from the Ponte Nuovo | | PH : | Nadir Shah is assasinated | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Musical Offering
| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal : Westminster Bridge, London, | | VA : | Charles-André van Loo : Drunken Silenus | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau : Portrait of Gabriel Huquier, engraver | | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Portrait of a Man | | PH : | William IV of Orange-Nassau becomes hereditary stadholder of the seven provinces of the Netherlands | | PH : | Prusso-Swedish alliance for mutual defence | | PH : | Nadir Shah murdered; Ahmed Shah becomes King of Afghanistan | | ED : | Biblioteca Nazionale founded in Florence, Italy | | ED : | Biographia Britannica | | LT : | Benjamin Franklin: Plain Truth | | ST : | Sugar discovered in beetroot | | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck born 2 July |
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| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal : Warwick Castle | | VA : | William Hogarth : The Gate of Calais | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of Madame
Maria Leszczynska
| | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Maurice, Comte de Saxe, Marshal of France
| | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet : View of Naples
| | PH : | Shah Rukh, grandson of Nadir Shah, ruler of Persia | | LT : | Marie-Thérese Geoffin opens salon as meeting place for Parisian men of letters | | RP : | Archibald Bower: History of the Popes | | RP : | David Hume: Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding | | M : | Holywell Music room, Oxford, opened | | ST : | Leonhard Euler: Analysis Infinitorum, on pure analytical mathematics | | ST : | English physician John Fothergill describes diphtheria | | ST : | Thomas Lowndes founds chair of astronomy at Cambridge | | DL : | Abolition of hereditary jurisdiction in Scotland | | VA : | Jacques-Louis David born 30 August | | PH : | 18 October - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends King George's War, restoring the status quo ante in the colonies; general recognition of Pragmatic Sanction and of Francis I as Holy Roman Emperor |
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| | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Magnificat
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Instrumental, Music for the Royal Fireworks
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Oratorio, Solomon
including 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba'
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Art of the Fugue
(unfinished)
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Mass
in B Minor
| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal : London- Westminster Abbey | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau : Madame de Sorquainville
| | PH : | Consolidation Act of British navy | | RP : | Denis Diderot: Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient | | RP : | David Hartley: Observations on Man | | DL : | François Philidor: Analyse des échecs, a study of chess, written by the famous composer | | ED : | Philadelphia Academy founded, becomes University of Pennsylvania, 1791 | | VA : | Alessandro Magnasco dies | | LT : | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born 28 August |
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| | RP : | The Jewish sect of Hasidism is founded by Baal Shem Tov | | PH : | The Capital of the Maratha confederacy in India becomes Poona | | VA : | The neoclassical art movement begins in Europe | | M : | The Waltz becomes a popular dance form in Europe | | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Concerto
in Bb for flute
| | VA : | François Boucher : The Interrupted Sleep | | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : Mr. and Mrs. Andrews | | VA : | William Hogarth : The Artist's Servants | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : The Duchess of Parma
and
her daughter Isabelle | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Farmhouse
| | ED : | Portuguese Giacobbo Rodriguez Pereire invents sign language for deaf-mutes | | PH : | John V of Portugal dies; succeeded by José I | | LT : | First playhouse opens in New York | | ED : | Dictionnaire de l'art de vérifier les dates des faits historiques ed. by the Benedictine monks of St.Maur | | RP : | King Frederick the Great: Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sanssouci | | RP : | Baal Shem founds Jewish sect of Chassidim in Carpathian mountain region | | VA : | Neoclassicism, as reaction against baroque and rococo, spreading over Europe | | M : | Johann Breitkopf, Leipzig music publisher, uses movable type for printing music | | ST : | French astronomer Nicolas de Lacaille leads expedition to Cape of Good Hope to determine solar and lunar parallax | | ST : | Johann Tobias Mayer: "Map of the Moon" | | DL : | First Westminster Bridge, London, finished | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach dies 28 July | | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Portrait of Mademoiselle de Coislin |
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| | LT : | Diderots' first volume of the Encyclopeie is published | | ST : | The Lightening conductor is invented by Benjamin Franklin | | VA : | Pietro Longhi : The Rhinoceros | | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Self-Portrait, 1751 | | VA : | Richard Wilson : Portrait of Francesco Zuccarelli | | PH : | Frederick II of Sweden dies; succeeded by his brother-in-law, Adolphus Frederick | | PH : | William IV of Holland dies; his widow, Anne, daughter of George II of England, becomes regent | | PH : | China invades Tibet | | ED : | French Encyclopédie published | | RP : | David Hume: Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | | RP : | Powers of Portuguese Inquisition curtailed by government | | ST : | Linnaeus: Philosophia Botanica | | M : | Francesco Geminiani: The Art of Playing on the Violin | | M : | The minuet becomes Europe's fashionable dance | | M : | "War of the Operas" divides Paris into pro-Italian and pro-French music lovers | | ED : | Ecole supérieure de guerre, Paris, founded | | ED : | Göttinger wissenschaftliche Akademie founded | | DL : | British calendar altered by Act of Parliament: 1 January henceforth to be beginning of New Year | | DL : | First mental asylums in London | | M : | Tomaso Albinoni dies 17 January |
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| | PH : | Treaty of Aranjuez between Spain and the Holy Roman Empire | | DL : | Great Britain adopts Gregorian calendar on Sept 14 | | RP : | Jonathan Edwards: Misrepresentations Corrected and Truth Vindicated | | RP : | David Hume: Political Discourses | | RP : | William Law: The Way to Divine Knowledge | | M : | Charles Avison : Essay on Musical Expression | | PH : | Chinese invade and conquer Tibet | | VA : | Charles-Antoine Coypel dies | | VA : | Pietro Longhi : Theatrical Scene | | VA : | Jean-François de Troy dies 26 January | | M : | Johann Friedrich Reichardt born 25 December |
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| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : John Plampin | | ST : | Swedish biologist Carolus Linnaeus publishes his system of plant classification | | VA : | The founding of the British Museum | | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Mlle Ferrand Meditating on Newton | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau : Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Oudry | | RP : | Robert Lowth: De sacra poesi Hebraeorum | | RP : | English Act of Parliament permits naturalisation of Jews | | ED : | British Museum, London, granted royal foundation charter | | ST : | Linnaeus: Species Plantorum | | DL : | British Marriage Act forbids weddings by unauthorised persons | | DL : | Vienna Stock Exchange founded |
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| | PH : | The Seven Years (French and Indian) War unofficially begins | | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet : Storm with a Shipwreck | | RP : | Jonathan Edwards: Inquiry into Freedom of the Will | | ED : | David Hume: History of Great Britain | | RP : | Rousseau: L'Inégalité par les hommes: discours | | RP : | John Woolman: Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes | | DL : | Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures founded in England | | ED : | King's College, New York, founded; becomes Columbia University, 1784 | | ED : | First female M.D. (University of Halle, Germany) | | VA : | Giovanni Batista Piazetta dies 28 April |
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| | PH : | The French and Indian War officially begins in America GO ! | | LT : | The Dictionary of the English Language is published by Samuel Johnson | | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto : Saints in Glory | | VA : | Anton Raphael Mengs : Semiramis Receives the
Message
of the Babylonion Revolt | | VA : | Allan Ramsay : Portrait of the Artist's Wife | | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour
| | PH : | Landgrave of Hesse sells mercenaries to England for defence of Hanover | | PH : | End of Anglo-Aust. alliance | | ED : | Samuel Johnson : Dictionary of the English Language | | RP : | Benjamin Franklin: Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of countries | | RP : | Francis Hutchson: A System of Moral Philosophy | | RP : | Immanuel Kant's doctoral thesis: The True Measure of Forces | | RP : | J.J. Winckelmann: Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke | | ED : | University of Moscow founded | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry dies 30 April |
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| | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto : Courtyard of the Castle
at Köningstein from the South | | PH : | The Black Hole of Calcutta, 123 British soldiers are alledged to have died there | | PH : | Treaty of Westminster; alliance between Britain and Prussia | | PH : | Treaty of Versailles; alliance between France and Austria | | PH : | British Rule India | | VA : | François Boucher : The Marquise
de Pompadour | | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni : Die Vermählung
Amors mit Psyche | | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet : The Town and Harbour of Toulon | | PH : | Anglo-Prussian Treaty of Westminster | | PH : | Britain declares war on France - Seven Year's War | | PH : | 120 British soldiers imprisoned and die in India ("Black Hole of Calcutta") | | LT : | Russian royal Court Theatre founded at St. Petersburg | | ED : | Thomas Birch: History of the Royal Society of London | | RP : | Edmund Burke: Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | | RP : | Alban Butler: Lives of the Saints, vol.1 | | RP : | Arthur Collins: The Peerage of England finished | | RP : | Mirabeau: Ami des hommes ou traité de la population | | ED : | Voltaire finished his Siècle de Louis XIV | | DL : | First chocolate factory in Germany | | DL : | Porcelain factory founded at Sèvres | | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born 27 January | | VA : | Sir Henry Raeburn born 4 March |
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| | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Portrait of Ekaterina Golovkina | | RP : | Denis Diderot: Entretiens sur le fils natural | | RP : | Richard Price: Review of the Principal Questions in Morals | | ED : | Royal Library, London, transferred to British Museum | | DL : | The London Chronicle appears | | M : | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz dies 27 March | | M : | Domenico Scarlatti dies 23 July | | VA : | William Blake born 28 November |
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| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : The Painter's Daughters | | VA : | Giovanni Battista Pittoni : Annunciation | | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Portrait of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna
| | DL : | Samuel Johnson: The Idler, weekly periodical | | RP : | Pope Benedict XIV dies; succeeded by Carlo della Torre Rezzonico as Pope Clement XIII | | RP : | Emerich de Vattel: Le Droit des gens | | RP : | Claude Adrien Helvétius: De l'esprit | | ED : | Serjeant's Inn (London Court) formed | | M : | First English manual on guitar playing published | | VA : | Pierre-Paul Prud'hon born 4 April |
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| | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto : Justice and Peace | | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto : View of Vienna from the Belvedere | | LT : | Candide written by Voltaire | | DL : | The Botanical Gardens founded at Kew in London | | PH : | Cherokee War against the English begins | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of a Lady as a Vestal Virgin | | PH : | King Ferdinand VI of Spain dies; succeeded by Charles II | | RP : | Alexander Gerard: An Essay on Taste | | ED : | Oliver Goldshmith: An Enquiry Into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe | | RP : | Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal | | RP : | Adam Smith: Theory of Moral Sentiments | | VA : | William Chambers: Treatise on Civil Architecture | | ST : | Franz Aepinus: Testamen theoriae electricitatis et magnetesmi | | ED : | Bavarian Academy of Science founded | | ED : | British Museum opened (at Montagu House) | | DL : | The Publish Ledger, London daily paper, appears | | M : | George Frideric Handel dies 14 April |
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| | PH : | George III becomes King of England | | PH : | Catherine II, The Great becomes ruler of Russia | | PH : | King George II of England dies; succeeded by his grandson George III | | LT : | James Macpherson: Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands, famous literary fraud | | VA : | First exhibition of contemporary art at Royal Society of Arts, London | | M : | Noverre, ballet master at Stuttgart, publishes his Letter on Dancing and Ballets | | ED : | First British school for deaf and dumb opened by Thomas Braidwood, Edinburgh | | DL : | Josiah Wedgewood founds pottery works at Etrurua, Staffordshire | | ST : | Botanical Gardens in Kew, London, opened | | DL : | Rules of whist laid down by Edmund Hoyle | | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Sonatas with Varied Repeats
| | VA : | George Stubbs : Mares and Foals in a Landscape | | VA : | Richard Wilson : Solitude | | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli : Mountain Landscape with Washerwomen and Fisherman |
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| | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Ballet, Don Juan
| | M : | Joseph Haydn : Symphonies
No.6, No.7 and No.8 ('Morning', 'Midday' and 'Evening')
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : The Laundress | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : The Village Betrothal | | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni : Diana & Cupid | | VA : | Anton Raphael Mengs : Parnassus
| | VA : | Allan Ramsay : Mrs. Martin | | PH : | Ieharu, the new Shogun of Japan | | LT : | Benjamin Victor: History of the Theatres of London and Dublin | | RP : | Henry Home: An Introduction to the Art of Thinking | | ST : | Russian scientist and poet Mikhail V. Lomonosov discovers the atmosphere of Venus | | ST : | B.G. Morgagni: On the Causes of Diseases, beginning of pathological anatomy | | ST : | Johann Peter Süssmilch initiates study of statistics | | ED : | First French veterinary school founded at Lyons | | ST : | Society of Arts, London, opens first exhibition of agricultural machines |
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| | VA : | Allan Ramsay : Queen Charlotte | | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Opera, Orfeo ed Euridice
| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : William Pointz | | VA : | George Stubbs : Whistlejacket | | VA : | Richard Wilson : Lake Albano | | PH : | Czarina Elizabeth of Russia dies; succeeded by Peter III, who dies by assassination; succeeded by Catherine II | | PH : | Treaty of Hamburg between Sweden and Prussia | | PH : | Russo-Prussian alliance against Austria signed | | PH : | Truce between Prussia, Saxony, and the Holy Roman Empire | | ED : | Robert Lowth: Introduction to English Grammar | | RP : | George Campbell: Dissertation on Miracles | | ED : | John Parkhurst: Hebrew and English Lexicon | | RP : | Rousseau: Du Contrat social, ou principes du droit politique | | ED : | Sorbonne Library, Paris, opened | | VA : | Stuart and Revett: Classical Antiquities of Athens, Vol I | | M : | Benjamin Franklin improves the harmonica, turning it into a practical musical instrument | | ST : | At Carron ironworks in Stirlingshire, Scotland, cast iron converted for the first time into malleable iron |
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| | PH : | The Seven Years war ends with the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg GO ! | | PH : | Augustus III dies; he is succeeded (1764) by Stanislaw II, the last king of Poland | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : Filial Piety | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Still-life with Pheasant | | VA : | Joseph Marie Vien : The Cupid Seller | | RP : | Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance | | ED : | Frederick the Great establishes village schools in Prussia |
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| | VA : | German historian Johann Winckelmann publishes his History of the Art of Antiquity | | M : | Joseph Haydn : Symphony
No.22, 'The Philosopher'
| | PH : | Pontiac's Rebellion in Ohio valley | | PH : | Stanislas Poniatowski elected King of Poland | | PH : | Hyder Ali usurps throne of Mysore | | RP : | Confiscation of Church lands in Russia | | PH : | Deposed Czar Ivan VI murdered in prison | | RP : | Jesuits suppressed in France | | LT : | The Literary Club founded in London by Dr. Johnson, with Burke, Gibbon, Goldsmith, Reynolds, etc. | | LT : | Literary salons founded in Paris by Mme. Necker and Mlle. de Lespinasse | | RP : | Cesare Beccaria-Conesana: On Crimes and Punishments | | RP : | Charles Bonnet: Contemplation de la nature | | ED : | Brown University, Providence, R.I. founded | | RP : | Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary | | VA : | J.J. Winckelmann: History of Ancient Art | | ST : | James Watt invents condenser, first step toward steam engine | | DL : | London introduces practice of numbering houses | | PH : | April - Sugar Act passed by Parliament to offset expenses of the French and Indian War | | M : | Johann Mattheson dies 17 April | | PH : | July - James Otis publishes The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved | | VA : | William Hogarth dies 26 October |
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