• 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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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1755. 1755 (MDCCLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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  • Carlo Goldoni first performed 1754 in literature – The History of Great Britain (to 1762) – David Hume 1755 in literature – Letter to Chesterfield – Samuel...
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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...
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    English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1...
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  • (premiered Nov. in Venice) Carl Heinrich Graun – Montezuma (libretto by King Frederick the Great, composed 1754 first performed Jan. 6, 1755) Johann Adolph...
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  • Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins the earliest recorded diary by a woman in North America. February 1 – Christopher Smart makes his last contribution...
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  • the literary events and publications of 1754. January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity (from the Persian fairy...
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  • (厲鶚), Chinese poet (born 1692) Augustan literature Poetical Works p. 443. John Ripley (1998). Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994. Fairleigh...
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  • The year 1755 in science and technology involved some significant events. Immanuel Kant develops the nebular hypothesis in his Universal Natural History...
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