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...

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

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

Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland...