1735 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Samuel Johnson marries Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, twenty years his senior.
• August 4 - At the end of the trial of John Zenger for seditious libel in the New York Weekly Journal, he is found not guilty by the jury.

[edit] New books

• Antoine François Prévost - Le Doyen de Killerine
• George Lillo - The Christian Hero

[edit] New drama

• Charlotte Charke - The Art of Management
• Robert Dodsley - The Toyshop

[edit] Births

• James Beattie (died 1803)
• July 5 - August Ludwig von Schlözer, historian (died 1809)
• December 31 - Jean de Crèvecoeur, French-American writer (died 1813)
• date unknown - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, soldier and writer (died 1814)

[edit] Deaths

• February 27 - John Arbuthnot (born 1667)
• April 5 - Samuel Wesley (poet) (born 1662)