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

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

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

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

The year 1755 in science and technology involved some significant events. Immanuel Kant develops the nebular hypothesis in his Universal Natural History...

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...

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...