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RecID: 363 |
1760 |
James Macpherson allegedly translates, but himself actually writes, poems by Ossian, Fragments of Ancient Poetry. |
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RecID: 1844 |
1760 |
Birth of Agnes, sister of Joanna Baillie. |
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RecID: 1845 |
1760 |
Birth of Matthew Baillie, brother of Joanna Baillie. |
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RecID: 361 |
1760 - 1767 |
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy. |
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RecID: 364 |
Oct 25, 1760 |
George II dies; George III Hanover, his grandson, becomes king. |
*House of Hanover |
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RecID: 365 |
1761 |
Rousseau, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloise. |
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RecID: 366 |
1761 |
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (approx. 1761). |
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RecID: 1832 |
1761 |
Adam Smith, Considerations Concerning the First Formations of Languages, and the Different Genius of Original and Compounded Languages. |
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RecID: 367 |
1762 |
Rousseau, Émile and The Social Contract. |
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RecID: 368 |
1762 |
Charlotte Lennox, Sophia. |
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RecID: 369 |
1762 |
Henry Home (Lord Kames), Elements of Criticism. |
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RecID: 371 |
1762 |
Sarah Fielding, Memoirs of Socrates. |
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RecID: 372 |
1762 |
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Nelly O'Brien. |
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RecID: 1833 |
1762 |
Bishop Lowth, A Short Introduction to English Grammar. |
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RecID: 370 |
1762 - 1771 |
Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting. |
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RecID: 1846 |
Sept 11, 1762 |
Joanna Baillie born, Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland. A premature birth, her twin sister dies during birth. |
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RecID: 373 |
1763 |
Peace with France gives back everything Pitt fought to obtain (Newfoundland fishing rights, Guadaloupe and Martininque [sugar trade], Dakar [gum trade]). John Wilkes is imprisoned in the Tower for his North Briton article; the judge Lord Camden rules against the government, thereby outlawing "general warrants," instruments of arbitrary imprisonment. |
*France
*Colonialism
*Economics |
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RecID: 374 |
1763 |
City merchants angry at George III: "the day of the bourgeois radical dawned." |
*Economics
*House of Hanover |
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RecID: 375 |
1763 |
Christopher Smart, Song to David. |
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RecID: 376 |
1763 |
Hugh Blair, "On the Poems of Ossian." |
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RecID: 377 |
May 16, 1763 |
James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson for the first time in Thomas Davies' bookshop, London.
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RecID: 378 |
1764 |
Thomas Reid, Inquiry into the Human Mind. |
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RecID: 379 |
1765 |
William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England. |
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RecID: 380 |
1765 |
Thomas Percy, ed., Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. |
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RecID: 381 |
1765 |
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto. |
*The Gothic |