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Event
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1739 |
David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature. |
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1739 |
Sophia, Women Not Inferior to Man. |
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1739 |
Anonymous, Man Superior to Woman, or, a Vindication of Man's Natural Right of Sovereign Authority over the Woman. Containing a plain confutation of the fallacious arguments of Sophia (published together with Sophia's 1740 reponse in 1751--see 1740, 1751). |
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1740 |
Marked decline in death rate; population begins to grow due to improved midwifery. |
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1740 |
Sophia, Women's Superior Excellence Over Man, or a Reply to the Author of a Late Treatise entitled "Men Superior to Woman" (see 1739 and 1751). |
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1740 |
George Dyer, Ruins of Rome.
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1740 |
Samuel Richardson, Pamela. |
*Sensibility |
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1740 |
Parliament passes an Act which allows Jews and Quakers to be naturalized in the British colonies in America. |
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Oct 22, 1740 |
James Boswell born, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
*Scotland |
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1741 |
Famine in Ireland. |
*Ireland |
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1741 |
Arbuthnot, et. al., Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus. |
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1741 |
David Hume, Essays, Moral and Political. |
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1741 |
Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind. |
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1741 |
Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Fuseli) born, Zurich, Switzerland. |
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1742 |
England goes to war with Spain, incited by
William Pitt the Elder for the sake of trade. Sir Robert Walpole resigns. Continental War under Carteret: Pitt denounces Carteret's policy as "a
wild waste of England's resources for the despicable [Hanover] electorate." |
*Spain
*Economics
*House of Hanover |
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1742 |
William Collins, Persian Eclogues. |
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1742 |
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews. |
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1742 |
Alexander Pope, New Dunciad (Book IV). |
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1742 |
Edward Young, Night Thoughts. |
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1742 |
John Wesley, Character of a Methodist. |
*Methodism |
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1743 |
Robert Blair, The Grave. |
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1743 |
Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (in four books). |
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1744 |
First Methodist Conference. |
*Methodism |
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1744 |
Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination. |
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1744 |
Joseph Warton, The Enthusiast. |
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