1722
Christopher
Smart born (d.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
1868.
[Against Parkes and Merivale.
]
The handwriting of Junius. 1874.
Junius. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Edn 9, vol. XII. 1881.
Jaques, J. The history of Junius and his works. 1813.
Lecky, W E. H. History of England in the eighteenth century. 3rd edn.
Vol. 111. 1887. [Account and critique of Junius. ]
Macaulay, Lord. Essay on Warren Hastings. Works, vol. 1x. 1898.
Merivale, H. Junius, Francis, and Lord_Mansfield in December 1770.
Fortnightly Review. 1 March 1868. [Replying to Hayward. ]
· Newhall, 1. Letters on Junius. . . showing that the author of that celebrated
work was Earl Temple. Boston, 1831.
Rae, W. Fraser. Facts about Junius and Francis, with other notes on the
Junius controversy. Contributed to the Athenaeum in 1888 and following
years.
Smith, James. Junius unveiled. 1909. [Argues that Gibbon was Junius. ]
Stephen, Sir L. Sir Philip Francis. D. of N. B. vol. xx. 1889.
Chatham, Francis, and Junius. Eng. Hist. Rev. April 1888.
Taylor, J. A discovery of the author of the Letters of Junius. 1813.
[In favour of Dr Philip Francis and Sir Philip Francis. ]
The identity of Junius with a distinguished living character [Sir
P. Francis] established. 1816. 2nd edn. 1818.
Supplement to Junius identified. 1817. 2nd edn. 1818.
A. T. B.
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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
1641 Henry Dodwell born (d. 1711).
1657 William Wake born (d. 1737).
1663 Francis Atterbury bori (d.
1732).
1663 Thomas Wilson, bp of Sodor
and Man born (d. 1755).
1667? Susannah Centlivre born (d.
1723).
1674 Isaac Watts born (d. 1748).
1675 William Somerville born (d.
1742).
1676 Benjamin Hoadly born (d.
1761).
1678 Simon Ockley born (d. 1720).
1678 Thomas Sherlock born (d. 1761).
1683 Conyers Middleton born (d.
1750).
1683 Daniel Waterland born (d.
1740).
1683 Edward Young born (d. 1765).
1685. Aaron Hill born (d. 1750).
1686 Thomas Carte born (d. 1754).
1688? Thomas Warton the elder
born (d. 1745).
1689 Samuel Richardson born (d.
1761).
1692 Joseph Butler born (d. 1752).
1693 George Lillo born (d. 1739).
1696 Matthew Green born (d. 1737).
1699 Robert Blair born (d. 1746).
1700 Death of Dryden.
1700 James Thomson born (d. 1748).
1700? John Dyer born (d. 1758).
1702 Philip Doddridge born (d.
1751).
1703 John Wesley born (d. 1791).
1703? Henry Brooke born (d. 1783).
1705 Abraham Tucker born (d. 1774).
1707 Henry Fielding born (d. 1754).
1707 Charles Wesley born (d. 1788).
1708 Ockley's History of the Sara-
cens begins to appear (completed
1757).
1709 John Armstrong born (d. 1779).
1709 Samuel Johnson born (d. 1784).
1709 George, Lord Lyttelton born
(d. 1773).
1709 Mrs Centlivre's The Busy
Body.
1709 First Copyright Act passed.
1710 Thomas Reid born (d. 1796).
1711 David Hume born (d. 1776).
1712 Richard Glover born (d. 1785).
1712 Edward Moore born (d. 1757).
1713 Laurence Sterne born (d. 1768).
1714 James Hervey born (d. 1758).
1714 William Shenstone born (d.
1763).
1714 George Whitefield born (d.
1770).
1714-27 George I.
1715 Richard Graves born (d. 1804).
1715 Richard Jago born (d. 1781).
1715 William Whitehead born (d.
1785).
1716 Thomas Gray born (d. 1771).
1717 David Garrick born (d. 1779).
1717 Horace Walpole born (d. 1797).
1717–20 The Bangorian Controversy.
1719 Death of Addison.
1719 Edward Young's Busiris.
1720 Samuel Foote born (d. 1777).
1720 Mrs Elizabeth Montagu born
(d. 1800).
1720 Gilbert White born (d. 1793).
1721 Mark Akenside born (d. 1770).
1721 William Collins born (d. 1759).
1721 William Robertson born (d.
1793).
1721 Tobias Smollett born (d. 1771).
## p. 529 (#555) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
529
1722 John Home born (d. 1808). 1736 Lillo's Fatal Curiosity.
1722 Thomas Leland born (d. 1785). 1737 Death of Queen Caroline.
1722 Christopher Smart born (d. 1737 Edward Gibbon born (d. 1794).
1771).
1737 Fielding's
Fielding's The Historical
1722 Joseph Warton born (d. 1800). Register for 1736.
1723 Richard Price born (d. 1791). 1737 Green's The Spleen.
1723 Sir Joshua Reynolds born (d. 1738 Johnson's London.
1792).
1739 Hugh Kelly born (d. 1777).
1723 Adam Smith born (d. 1790). 1739 War declared against Spain.
1726 Law's Absolute Unlawfulness 1739-40 Hume's Treatise of Human
of the Stage Entertainment Nature.
fully demonstrated.
1740 James Boswell born (d. 1795).
1726 Thomson's Winter.
1740 Sir Philip Francis born (d.
1727 Arthur Murphy born (d. 1805). 1818).
1727 John Wilkes born (d. 1797). 1740-1 Richardson's Pamela.
1727 Death of Newton.
1741 Middleton's Life of Cicero.
1727 Dyer's Grongar Hill.
1741 Resignation of Walpole.
1727 Thomson's Summer.
1742 Battle of Dettingen.
1727-60 George II.
1742 Fielding's Joseph Andrews.
1728 Oliver Goldsmith born (d. 1742–5 Young's Night Thoughts.
1774).
1743 William Paley born (d. 1805).
1728 Thomas Warton the Younger 1743 Blair's The Grave.
born (d. 1790).
1743 Fielding's Miscellanies.
1728 Fielding's Love in Several 1744 William Mitford born (d.
Masques.
1827).
1728 Gay's Beggar's Opera.
1744 Pope died.
1728 Thomson's Spring.
1744 Akenside's Pleasures of the
1729 John William Fletcher (of Imagination.
Madeley) born (d. 1785).
1744 Armstrong's Art of preserving
1729 Thomas Percy born (d. 1811). health.
1729 Clara Reeve born (d. 1807). 1744 Sarah Fielding's David Sim-
1729 Thomson's Sophonisba.
ple.
1730 Fielding's Tom Thumb. 1744 Johnson's Life of Savage.
1730 Thomson's Seasons (including 1745 Henry Mackenzie born (d.
Autumn).
1831).
1731 Charles Churchill born (d. 1745 Hannah More born (d. 1833).
1764).
1745 Death of Swift.
1731 Death of Defoe.
1745-6 Jacobite Rebellion.
1731 The Gentleman's Magazine 1746–7 Hervey's Meditations.
first appears.
1747 Collins's Odes.
1731 Lillo's London Merchant. 1747 Gray's Ode on a distant pro-
1732 George Colman born (d. 1794). spect of Eton College.
1732 William Falconer born (d. 1747 John Hoadly's Suspicious
1769).
Husband,
1732 David Hartley born (d. 1813). 1747 Lyttelton's Monody.
1733 Joseph Priestley born (d. 1804). 1747-8 Richardson's Clarissa Har-
1734 Henry Carey's Chrononhoton- lowe.
thologos.
1747-55 Carte's History of Eng-
1735 James Beattie born (d. 1803). land.
1735 Somervile's The Chace. 1748 Hume's Philosophical Essays
1736 James Macpherson born (d. concerning Human Understand-
1796).
1736 Butler's Analogy.
1748 Smollett's Roderick Random.
1736 Fielding's Pasquin.
1748 Thomson's Castle of In-
1736 Aaron Hill's Zara.
dolence.
E. L X.
34
ing.
## p. 530 (#556) ############################################
530
Table of Principal Dates
1749 Fielding's Tom Jones.
1759 Adam Smith's Theory of
1749 David Hartley's Observations Moral Sentiments.
on Man.
1760 Lyttelton's Dialogues of the
1749 Johnson's Vanity of Human Dead.
Wishes and Irene.
1760 Macpherson's Fragments of
1750 First number of The Rambler, Ancient Poetry.
20 March. (Last, 14 March 1760 Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse.
1752. )
1760–7 Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
1750 Fielding's Enquiry into the 1760-1820 George III.
Causes of the late Increase of 1761 Churchill's The Rosciad and
Robbers.
The Apology.
1750 Whitehead's The Roman 1761 Colman's The Jealous Wife.
Father.
1761 Diderot's Éloge de Richardson.
1751 Sheridan born (d. 1816).
1761 Resignation of Pitt. Bute at
1751 Fielding's Amelia.
the head of affairs.
1751 Gray's Elegy.
1762 Isaac Bickerstaff's Love in a
1751 Hume's Enquiry concerning Village.
the Principles of Morals. 1762 Falconer's The Shipwreck.
1751 Smollett's Peregrine Pickle. 1762 Goldsmith's Citizen of the
1752 Frances Burney (Mme d'Ar- World.
blay) born (d. 1840).
1762 Macpherson's Fingal.
1752 Thomas Chatterton born (d. 1762 Smollett's Sir Launcelot
1770).
Greaves.
1752 Joseph Ritson born (d. 1803). 1762 Walpole's Anecdotes of Paint-
1752 Smollett's Adventures of Fer- ing in England.
dinand Count Fathom.
1763 No. 45 of The North Briton
1753 Edward Moore's The Game- appears.
ster.
1763–5 Continuation of Smollett's
1753-4 Richardson's Sir Charles History of England.
Grandison.
1763 Macpherson's Temora.
1754-61 Hume's History of Great 1763 Percy's Five Pieces of Runic
Britain.
Poetry.
1755 Fielding's Voyage to Lisbon. 1763 Resignation of Bute.
1755 Johnson's Dictionary.
1763 Smart's Song to David.
1755 Shebbeare's Letters to the 1764 Goldsmith's The Traveller.
People of England begin. 1764 Reid's Inquiry into the Human
1755 The Monitor established.
Mind.
1756 Home's Douglas.
1764 Shenstone's Works in Prose
1757-60 The great years of Pitt.
and Verse.
1757 Battle of Plassey.
1764 Horace Walpole's Castle of
1757 The Strawberry Hill Press Otranto.
opened.
1764 The Candor pamphlets.
1757 Gray's Odes.
1765 The Stamp Act.
1757 · Price's Review of the principal 1765 Johnson's edition of Shake-
questions in Morals.
speare.
1757-8 Smollett's History of Eng. 1765 Percy's Reliques.
land.
1765 Tucker's Light of Nature
1758 H. S. Woodfall assumes con- pursued, vols. 1-IV. (Completed
trol of The Public Advertiser.
1778. )
1758-60 Johnson's Idler.
1766 Colman's Clandestine Mar-
1759 Battle of Minden. Capture of
riage.
Quebec.
1766 Goldsmith's Vicar of Wake-
1759 Johnson's Rasselas.
field.
1759 Robertson's History of Scot- 1766 Repeal of the Stamp Act. The
land.
Chatham Ministry.
## p. 531 (#557) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
531
1766 Smollett's Travels through 1775 Johnson's Journey to the
France and Italy.
Western Islands of Scotland.
1766-70 Henry Brooke's The Fool of 1775-8 Tyrwhitt's edition of Chaucer
Quality.
published.
1768 Goldsmith's The Good-Naturd 1776 American Declaration of Inde-
Man.
pendence.
1768 Gray's Poems.
1776 Gibbon's Decline and Fall of
1768 Kelly's False Delicacy.
the Roman Empire, Vol. 1. (Vols.
1768 Priestley's Essay on the first II, III, 1781; Vols.
The handwriting of Junius. 1874.
Junius. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Edn 9, vol. XII. 1881.
Jaques, J. The history of Junius and his works. 1813.
Lecky, W E. H. History of England in the eighteenth century. 3rd edn.
Vol. 111. 1887. [Account and critique of Junius. ]
Macaulay, Lord. Essay on Warren Hastings. Works, vol. 1x. 1898.
Merivale, H. Junius, Francis, and Lord_Mansfield in December 1770.
Fortnightly Review. 1 March 1868. [Replying to Hayward. ]
· Newhall, 1. Letters on Junius. . . showing that the author of that celebrated
work was Earl Temple. Boston, 1831.
Rae, W. Fraser. Facts about Junius and Francis, with other notes on the
Junius controversy. Contributed to the Athenaeum in 1888 and following
years.
Smith, James. Junius unveiled. 1909. [Argues that Gibbon was Junius. ]
Stephen, Sir L. Sir Philip Francis. D. of N. B. vol. xx. 1889.
Chatham, Francis, and Junius. Eng. Hist. Rev. April 1888.
Taylor, J. A discovery of the author of the Letters of Junius. 1813.
[In favour of Dr Philip Francis and Sir Philip Francis. ]
The identity of Junius with a distinguished living character [Sir
P. Francis] established. 1816. 2nd edn. 1818.
Supplement to Junius identified. 1817. 2nd edn. 1818.
A. T. B.
## p. 528 (#554) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
1641 Henry Dodwell born (d. 1711).
1657 William Wake born (d. 1737).
1663 Francis Atterbury bori (d.
1732).
1663 Thomas Wilson, bp of Sodor
and Man born (d. 1755).
1667? Susannah Centlivre born (d.
1723).
1674 Isaac Watts born (d. 1748).
1675 William Somerville born (d.
1742).
1676 Benjamin Hoadly born (d.
1761).
1678 Simon Ockley born (d. 1720).
1678 Thomas Sherlock born (d. 1761).
1683 Conyers Middleton born (d.
1750).
1683 Daniel Waterland born (d.
1740).
1683 Edward Young born (d. 1765).
1685. Aaron Hill born (d. 1750).
1686 Thomas Carte born (d. 1754).
1688? Thomas Warton the elder
born (d. 1745).
1689 Samuel Richardson born (d.
1761).
1692 Joseph Butler born (d. 1752).
1693 George Lillo born (d. 1739).
1696 Matthew Green born (d. 1737).
1699 Robert Blair born (d. 1746).
1700 Death of Dryden.
1700 James Thomson born (d. 1748).
1700? John Dyer born (d. 1758).
1702 Philip Doddridge born (d.
1751).
1703 John Wesley born (d. 1791).
1703? Henry Brooke born (d. 1783).
1705 Abraham Tucker born (d. 1774).
1707 Henry Fielding born (d. 1754).
1707 Charles Wesley born (d. 1788).
1708 Ockley's History of the Sara-
cens begins to appear (completed
1757).
1709 John Armstrong born (d. 1779).
1709 Samuel Johnson born (d. 1784).
1709 George, Lord Lyttelton born
(d. 1773).
1709 Mrs Centlivre's The Busy
Body.
1709 First Copyright Act passed.
1710 Thomas Reid born (d. 1796).
1711 David Hume born (d. 1776).
1712 Richard Glover born (d. 1785).
1712 Edward Moore born (d. 1757).
1713 Laurence Sterne born (d. 1768).
1714 James Hervey born (d. 1758).
1714 William Shenstone born (d.
1763).
1714 George Whitefield born (d.
1770).
1714-27 George I.
1715 Richard Graves born (d. 1804).
1715 Richard Jago born (d. 1781).
1715 William Whitehead born (d.
1785).
1716 Thomas Gray born (d. 1771).
1717 David Garrick born (d. 1779).
1717 Horace Walpole born (d. 1797).
1717–20 The Bangorian Controversy.
1719 Death of Addison.
1719 Edward Young's Busiris.
1720 Samuel Foote born (d. 1777).
1720 Mrs Elizabeth Montagu born
(d. 1800).
1720 Gilbert White born (d. 1793).
1721 Mark Akenside born (d. 1770).
1721 William Collins born (d. 1759).
1721 William Robertson born (d.
1793).
1721 Tobias Smollett born (d. 1771).
## p. 529 (#555) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
529
1722 John Home born (d. 1808). 1736 Lillo's Fatal Curiosity.
1722 Thomas Leland born (d. 1785). 1737 Death of Queen Caroline.
1722 Christopher Smart born (d. 1737 Edward Gibbon born (d. 1794).
1771).
1737 Fielding's
Fielding's The Historical
1722 Joseph Warton born (d. 1800). Register for 1736.
1723 Richard Price born (d. 1791). 1737 Green's The Spleen.
1723 Sir Joshua Reynolds born (d. 1738 Johnson's London.
1792).
1739 Hugh Kelly born (d. 1777).
1723 Adam Smith born (d. 1790). 1739 War declared against Spain.
1726 Law's Absolute Unlawfulness 1739-40 Hume's Treatise of Human
of the Stage Entertainment Nature.
fully demonstrated.
1740 James Boswell born (d. 1795).
1726 Thomson's Winter.
1740 Sir Philip Francis born (d.
1727 Arthur Murphy born (d. 1805). 1818).
1727 John Wilkes born (d. 1797). 1740-1 Richardson's Pamela.
1727 Death of Newton.
1741 Middleton's Life of Cicero.
1727 Dyer's Grongar Hill.
1741 Resignation of Walpole.
1727 Thomson's Summer.
1742 Battle of Dettingen.
1727-60 George II.
1742 Fielding's Joseph Andrews.
1728 Oliver Goldsmith born (d. 1742–5 Young's Night Thoughts.
1774).
1743 William Paley born (d. 1805).
1728 Thomas Warton the Younger 1743 Blair's The Grave.
born (d. 1790).
1743 Fielding's Miscellanies.
1728 Fielding's Love in Several 1744 William Mitford born (d.
Masques.
1827).
1728 Gay's Beggar's Opera.
1744 Pope died.
1728 Thomson's Spring.
1744 Akenside's Pleasures of the
1729 John William Fletcher (of Imagination.
Madeley) born (d. 1785).
1744 Armstrong's Art of preserving
1729 Thomas Percy born (d. 1811). health.
1729 Clara Reeve born (d. 1807). 1744 Sarah Fielding's David Sim-
1729 Thomson's Sophonisba.
ple.
1730 Fielding's Tom Thumb. 1744 Johnson's Life of Savage.
1730 Thomson's Seasons (including 1745 Henry Mackenzie born (d.
Autumn).
1831).
1731 Charles Churchill born (d. 1745 Hannah More born (d. 1833).
1764).
1745 Death of Swift.
1731 Death of Defoe.
1745-6 Jacobite Rebellion.
1731 The Gentleman's Magazine 1746–7 Hervey's Meditations.
first appears.
1747 Collins's Odes.
1731 Lillo's London Merchant. 1747 Gray's Ode on a distant pro-
1732 George Colman born (d. 1794). spect of Eton College.
1732 William Falconer born (d. 1747 John Hoadly's Suspicious
1769).
Husband,
1732 David Hartley born (d. 1813). 1747 Lyttelton's Monody.
1733 Joseph Priestley born (d. 1804). 1747-8 Richardson's Clarissa Har-
1734 Henry Carey's Chrononhoton- lowe.
thologos.
1747-55 Carte's History of Eng-
1735 James Beattie born (d. 1803). land.
1735 Somervile's The Chace. 1748 Hume's Philosophical Essays
1736 James Macpherson born (d. concerning Human Understand-
1796).
1736 Butler's Analogy.
1748 Smollett's Roderick Random.
1736 Fielding's Pasquin.
1748 Thomson's Castle of In-
1736 Aaron Hill's Zara.
dolence.
E. L X.
34
ing.
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530
Table of Principal Dates
1749 Fielding's Tom Jones.
1759 Adam Smith's Theory of
1749 David Hartley's Observations Moral Sentiments.
on Man.
1760 Lyttelton's Dialogues of the
1749 Johnson's Vanity of Human Dead.
Wishes and Irene.
1760 Macpherson's Fragments of
1750 First number of The Rambler, Ancient Poetry.
20 March. (Last, 14 March 1760 Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse.
1752. )
1760–7 Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
1750 Fielding's Enquiry into the 1760-1820 George III.
Causes of the late Increase of 1761 Churchill's The Rosciad and
Robbers.
The Apology.
1750 Whitehead's The Roman 1761 Colman's The Jealous Wife.
Father.
1761 Diderot's Éloge de Richardson.
1751 Sheridan born (d. 1816).
1761 Resignation of Pitt. Bute at
1751 Fielding's Amelia.
the head of affairs.
1751 Gray's Elegy.
1762 Isaac Bickerstaff's Love in a
1751 Hume's Enquiry concerning Village.
the Principles of Morals. 1762 Falconer's The Shipwreck.
1751 Smollett's Peregrine Pickle. 1762 Goldsmith's Citizen of the
1752 Frances Burney (Mme d'Ar- World.
blay) born (d. 1840).
1762 Macpherson's Fingal.
1752 Thomas Chatterton born (d. 1762 Smollett's Sir Launcelot
1770).
Greaves.
1752 Joseph Ritson born (d. 1803). 1762 Walpole's Anecdotes of Paint-
1752 Smollett's Adventures of Fer- ing in England.
dinand Count Fathom.
1763 No. 45 of The North Briton
1753 Edward Moore's The Game- appears.
ster.
1763–5 Continuation of Smollett's
1753-4 Richardson's Sir Charles History of England.
Grandison.
1763 Macpherson's Temora.
1754-61 Hume's History of Great 1763 Percy's Five Pieces of Runic
Britain.
Poetry.
1755 Fielding's Voyage to Lisbon. 1763 Resignation of Bute.
1755 Johnson's Dictionary.
1763 Smart's Song to David.
1755 Shebbeare's Letters to the 1764 Goldsmith's The Traveller.
People of England begin. 1764 Reid's Inquiry into the Human
1755 The Monitor established.
Mind.
1756 Home's Douglas.
1764 Shenstone's Works in Prose
1757-60 The great years of Pitt.
and Verse.
1757 Battle of Plassey.
1764 Horace Walpole's Castle of
1757 The Strawberry Hill Press Otranto.
opened.
1764 The Candor pamphlets.
1757 Gray's Odes.
1765 The Stamp Act.
1757 · Price's Review of the principal 1765 Johnson's edition of Shake-
questions in Morals.
speare.
1757-8 Smollett's History of Eng. 1765 Percy's Reliques.
land.
1765 Tucker's Light of Nature
1758 H. S. Woodfall assumes con- pursued, vols. 1-IV. (Completed
trol of The Public Advertiser.
1778. )
1758-60 Johnson's Idler.
1766 Colman's Clandestine Mar-
1759 Battle of Minden. Capture of
riage.
Quebec.
1766 Goldsmith's Vicar of Wake-
1759 Johnson's Rasselas.
field.
1759 Robertson's History of Scot- 1766 Repeal of the Stamp Act. The
land.
Chatham Ministry.
## p. 531 (#557) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
531
1766 Smollett's Travels through 1775 Johnson's Journey to the
France and Italy.
Western Islands of Scotland.
1766-70 Henry Brooke's The Fool of 1775-8 Tyrwhitt's edition of Chaucer
Quality.
published.
1768 Goldsmith's The Good-Naturd 1776 American Declaration of Inde-
Man.
pendence.
1768 Gray's Poems.
1776 Gibbon's Decline and Fall of
1768 Kelly's False Delicacy.
the Roman Empire, Vol. 1. (Vols.
1768 Priestley's Essay on the first II, III, 1781; Vols.
