1730 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1730.
Events
- January 7 â The death of the Icelandic scholar Ãrni Magnússon activates the bequest to the University of Copenhagen in Denmark of the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, which he has assembled.[1]
- January 8 â The Grub Street Journal is launched in London, with Richard Russel and John Martyn as editors.[2] It lasts for 418 issues.
- April 17 â Pietro Metastasio arrives in Vienna, where he settles permanently.[3]
- December 3 â Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of Great Britain, in succession to Laurence Eusden.[4]
- December 11 â Voltaire's Brutus is finally staged.[5]
- unknown date â Romeo and Juliet becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed in America, when it is staged in New York City.[6]
New books
Prose
- Joseph Addison â The Evidences of the Christian Religion (posthumous)[7]
- John Bancks â The Weaver's Miscellany[8]
- Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix â Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue
- Thomas Cooke as "Scriblerus Tertius" â The Candidates for the Bays
- Yaakov Culi â Me'am Lo'ez[9]
- Philip Doddridge â Free Thoughts on the Most Probable Means of Reviving the Dissenting Interest
- Johann Christoph Gottsched â Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen
- John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey â Observations on the Writings of the Craftsman
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton â An Epistle to Mr. Pope
- Pierre des Maizeaux â Vie de Bayle
- Isaac Rand â Index plantarum officinalium, quas ad materiae medicae scientiam promovendam, in horto Chelseiano (catalogue of plants in Chelsea Physic Garden)
- Philip Johan von Strahlenberg â Das Nord- und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia (North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia)
- Jonathan Swift â A Libel on Dââ Dââ, and a Certain Great Lord
- Matthew Tindal â Christianity as Old as Creation
- William Whiston â Life of Samuel Clarke
- William Wotton (posthumous) â A Discourse Concerning the Confusion of Languages at Babel
- Edward Young â Two Epistles to Mr. Pope
Drama
- Theophilus Cibber â Patie and Peggy (opera)
- Henry Fielding
- Charles Johnson â The Tragedy of Medea
- George Lillo â Sylvia
- Pierre de Marivaux â The Game of Love and Chance
- Benjamin Martyn â Timoleon[10]
- James Miller â The Humours of Oxford
- John Mottley â The Widow Bewitched
- Gabriel Odingsells â Bayes's Opera
- James Ralph â The Fashionable Lady
- James Thomson â Sophonisba
- Edward Ward â The Prisoner's Opera
Poetry
- Stephen Duck â Poems on Several Subjects[11] (including "The Thresher's Labour")
- Matthew Pilkington â Poems on Several Occasions
- Elizabeth Thomas â The Metamorphosis of the Town[12]
- See also 1730 in poetry
Births
- March 27 â Thomas Tyrwhitt, English critic (died 1786)
- April 1 â Salomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (died 1788)[13]
- August 20 â Paul Henri Mallet, Swiss historian (died 1807)[14]
- December 6 â Sophie von La Roche (Maria Sophie Gutermann von Gutershofen), German novelist (died 1807)
- unknown dates
- Thomas Marryat, English medical writer and physician (died 1792)[15]
- Joakim StuliÄ, Croatian lexicographer (died 1817)
- Tarikonda Venkamamba, Telugu poet (died 1817)
- probable year â Charlotte Lennox, Gibraltar-born Scottish novelist and poet (died 1804)[16]
Deaths
- January 7 â Ãrni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar (born 1663)[1]
- February 9 â Johann Georg von Eckhart, German historian (born 1664)
- March 20 â Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (born 1692)[17]
- July 16 â Elijah Fenton, English poet (born 1683)
- August 16 â Laurence Echard, English historian (born c. 1670)
- September 14 â Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish poet and writer (born 1659)[18]
- September 27 â Laurence Eusden, English Poet Laureate (born 1688)
- October 23 â Anne Oldfield, English actress (born 1683)[19]
- November â Nedîm, Ottoman poet (born c. 1680; killed in the Patrona Halil uprising[20][21]
- December 31 â Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (born 1651)[22]
