literary events and publications of 1755. LEXICOGRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing...

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The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of...

Carlo Goldoni first performed 1754 in literature – The History of Great Britain (to 1762) – David Hume 1755 in literature – Letter to Chesterfield – Samuel...

English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1...

(premiered Nov. in Venice) Carl Heinrich Graun – Montezuma (libretto by King Frederick the Great, composed 1754 first performed Jan. 6, 1755) Johann Adolph...

Defence of Rhyme, published in Roger Comberbach's A Dispute; also published in 1755 under the title The Contest George Colman, the elder, and Bonnell Thornton...

related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1755. Joshua Platt, a dealer in curiosities, discovers three large dinosaurian vertebrae...

Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins the earliest recorded diary by a woman in North America. February 1 – Christopher Smart makes his last contribution...

Peg Woffington, playing Rosalind in As You Like It, suffers a stroke on stage at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London and never acts again. May...