1736 in literature
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See also: 1735 in literature, other events of 1736, 1737 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Charles Rivington founds a company of booksellers known as the "New Conger".
[edit] New books
- Joseph Addison - The Works of Petronius Arbiter (translation)
[edit] New drama
- Henry Carey - The Honest Yorkshireman
- Colley Cibber - Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John
- Henry Fielding - Pasquin
- George Lillo - The Fatal Curiosity
[edit] Non-fiction
- Thomas Bayes - An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst
- Joseph Butler - Analogy of Religion
- Thomas Carte - ''Life of James Duke of Ormonde
- Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab - Kitab at-tawhidt
- Isaac Newton - Method of Fluxions
- Leonard Welsted - The Scheme and Conduct of Providence
[edit] Births
- May 10 - George Steevens, English Shakesperean commentator (died 1800)
- October 27 - James Macpherson, Scottish poet (died 1796)
- Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (died 1803)
[edit] Deaths
- Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
