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The Battle of Plassey (June 23): Robert Clive defeats Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula.
Jonathan Edwards becomes President of the institution that would later become Princeton University.
Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his name to Beaumarchais.
Robert Raikes becomes proprietor of the Gloucester Journal.
Thomas Gray turns down the post of Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
Horace Walpole began Strawberry Hill Press.
The Parlement of Toulouse stages a public burning of Jesuit author Hermann Busenbaum's Medulla Theologiae Morales, because of its treament of the subject of regicide.

Anonymous - An Account of the European Settlements in America.
Phanuel Bacon - Humorous Ethics, or an Attempt to Cure the Vices and Follies of the Age by a Method Entirely New (5 plays).
John Brown - An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times.
Edmund Burke - A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.
Madame Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray - Manual on the Art of Childbirth.
John Dalrymple - An Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain.
William Duncombe - The Works of Horace in English Verse (various translators).
Adam Ferguson - The Morality of Stage-Plays Seriously Considered.
Edward and Elizabeth Griffith - A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances vols. i - ii.
David Hume - The Natural History of Religion.
Soame Jenyns - A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil.
Richard Price - Review of the Principal Questions in Morals.
Madame Riccoboni - Lettres de Mistriss Fanny Butlerd.
Tobias Smollett - A Complete History of England.
William Warburton - Remarks upon Mr. David Hume's Essay on the Natural History of Religion.
Joseph Warton - Essay on Pope.
John Wesley - The Doctrine of Original Sin.