Hume: Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

Ed. Moore: The Found-
ling.

S. Richardson: Clarissa
Harlowe.

Smollett: Roderick Ran-
dom.
Tanner: Bibliotheca.
Thomson: Castle of In-
dolence.

John and Charles Wes-
ley: Hymns for the
Lord's Supper.

1749. Lord Bolingbroke: Letters on Patriotism. Fielding: Tom Jones. Johnson: Irene and Vanity of Human Wishes.

Conyers Middleton: Free
Inquiry into Miraculous
Powers.

COMPARATIVE CHRONOLOGY. Dodsley's Collection of Poems (in 3 vols.).

Mably: Droit public de l'Europe.
Lord Anson presented to the
Royal Society an account of
his voyage round the world
(June 30th).
Klopstock's Messias.

Dr. Isaac Watts died.
Thomson died.

Bentham born.

Charles James Fox born.
Berthollet (the great chemist)
born.
Bürger born.

Monthly Review begins.

Muratcri commences last vol. of his Rerum Italicorum Scriptores.

Montesquieu Esprit des Lois. La Chaussée: Ecole de la Jeun

esse.

Fréret died.

Mme. de Tencin died

of History.

adopted in Great Britain from September 14th, 1752. Eleven days (September 3rd to 13th) had to be omitted to rectify the Calendar. Henceforth the Civil and Legal year began, not on March 25th, but on January 1st.

Bp. Butler died.

William Whiston died.
W. Cheselden died.

Frances Burney born.
Chatterton born.

Handel's Messiah performed at Foundling Hospital.

Count Fathom.

Thos. Warton: Observations on Faërie Queene.

1754. Bolingbroke: Philosophical Writings (ed. Mallett).

Colman and Thornton :

The Connoisseur.
Glover: Boadicea.
Hume: History of Eng-

land (vol. i.).
Bp. Newton:
Prophecies.

On the

Thos. Birch: Memoirs of
Queen Elizabeth.

1755. Fielding: Voyage to Lis

bon (posthumous). Carte: History of England (completed). Hutcheson System of Moral Philosophy. Johnson: Dictionary of English Language.

COMPARATIVE CHRONOLOGY. In his preface to Grandison Richardson protests against the piracies of the Dublin publishers.

Establishment of British Mu
seum by Act of Parliament.
Death of Sir Hans Sloane.
Bp. Berkeley died.
Dugald Stewart born.
Thomas Bewick born.
Pigault-Lebrun born.
Rivarol born.

Annual Register begins.
Society of Arts founded.

Ed. Cave (founder of Gentle-
man's Magazine) died.
Fielding died.

Wm. Hamilton of Bangour died.

Thos. Carte died.

Crabbe born.

Joubert born.

Joseph de Maistre born.

Parliament votes £100,000 for sufferers by Lisbon earthquake.

Johnson wrote his 'civil letter' to Chesterfield (7 Feb.).

Duc de St. Simon died.
Montesquieu died.
Maffei died.

COMPARATIVE CHRONOLOGY.

John Flaxman born.

Sarah Siddons born.

Literary Magazine and Critical Review established.

Gessner: Idyllen.

Goldsmith arrived in London.

Gilbert West died.

George Vertue died.

Gifford born.

Godwin born.

Gilbert Wakefield born.

Raeburn born.

Mozart born.

Strawberry Hill Press set up. Voltaire: Candide.

Cibber died.

Edward Moore died.
David Hartley died.
Fontenelle died.
D'Argenson died.
Blake born.

James Gillray born
Romilly born.

Isla Historia del famoso Pre

dicador Fray Gerundio.

Allan Ramsay died.
Dyer died.

James Hervey died.

Jonathan Edwards died.
Dr. Shebbeare pilloried.
John Pinkerton born
Noah Webster born.
Dr. Gall born.

Nelson born,

1759. Goldsmith: Enquiry into

Present State of Polite

Learning in Europe

and The Bee.

Dodsley's

begins.

W. Collins died.