1734 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Manoel da Assumpcam begins writing his grammar of the Bengali language.
- Copies of Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais are burned, and a warrant is issued for the author's arrest.
- Le Cabinet du Philosophe, a new periodical by Pierre de Marivaux, is unsuccessfully launched.
[edit] New books
- Design and Beauty: an Epistle - Henry Brooke
- The Analyst - George Berkeley
- History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire - Dimitrie Cantemir (1734 is the date of the first publishing, as the book had been circulating in manuscript)
- Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
- Opera philosophica et mineralia - Emanuel Swedenborg
[edit] New drama
- Henry Carey
- Chrononhotonthologos
- The Dragon of Wantley (burlesque)
- Carlo Goldoni - Belisario
- António José da Silva - Esopaida
- James Thomson - The Tragedy of Sophonisba
[edit] Births
- July 25 - Ueda Akinari, Japanese poet and novelist (died 1809)
- October 23 - Rétif de la Bretonne, novelist (died 1806)
- December 31 - Claude Joseph Dorat, "Le Chevalier Dorat" (died 1780)
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - John Dennis, dramatist (born 1657)
- March 1 - Roger North (17th century), biographer (born 1653)
