1702 in literature

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The year 1702 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

March 8 (O.S.) - Accession of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, upon the death of her brother-in-law William III.
March 11 (O.S.) - The first regular English national newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published for the first time^[1] in Fleet Street in the City of London; it covers only foreign news.
October - Jonathan Swift returns to Ireland in the company of Esther Johnson.
The first book is printed using the Romain du Roi Roman typeface devized for use by the Imprimerie nationale in France, Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand.
Castle Howard in Yorkshire, England, is completed to the design of playwright John Vanbrugh and architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.^[2]

Thomas Brown, et al. - Letters From the Dead to the Living
Edmund Calamy - An Abridgement of Mr Baxter's History of His Life and Times
Daniel Defoe
- An Enquiry into Occasional Conformity
- The Mock-Mourners (on the death of William III)
- A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty
- Reformation of Manners
- The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (anonymous; December)
- The Spanish Descent
John Dennis - The Monument
Laurence Echard - A General Ecclesiastical History
George Farquhar - Love and Business
Edmund Gibson - Synodus Anglicana (on the convocation)
Charles Gildon (?) - A Comparison Between the Two Stages (on the "War of the Theatres")
Examen Miscellaneum
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (aka "Clarendon's History")
George Keith - The Standard of the Quakers Examined
John Kersey - A New English Dictionary; or, a complete collection of the most proper and significant words, commonly used in the language
Cotton Mather - Magnalia Christi Americana
Matthew Prior - To a Young Gentleman in Love
John Toland - Paradoxes of State
Catherine Trotter Cockburn - A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding (re John Locke)

Matsuo Bashō (posthumously) - Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the interior")^[3]

June 26 - Philip Doddridge, Nonconformist preacher and writer (died 1751)
date unknown
- Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, (died 1788)
- Kenrick Prescot
- Yokai Yagu, Japanese poet (died 1783)
- Margareta Momma, editor and writer

January 1 - Samuel Green, American printer (date of birth unknown)
April 22 - François Charpentier, French archaeologist and writer (born 1620)
May 27 - Dominique Bouhours, literary critic (born 1628)
date unknown
- Roger Morrice, journalist and diarist (born 1628)
- John Pomfret, English poet (born 1667)
- Richard Sault, English mathematician, editor and translator (date of birth unknown)

↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 201–202. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Bolitho, Harold (2003), in Treasures of the Yenching: seventy-fifth anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Chinese University Press. ISBN 978-962-996-102-2. p. 35.

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