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| 1755 |
| | | Samuel Johnson publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English Language | |
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| 1758 |
| | | James Woodforde, an English country parson with a love of food and wine, begins a detailed diary of everyday life | |
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| 1759 |
| | | Laurence Sterne publishes the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy, beginning with the scene at the hero's conception | |
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| 1762 |
| | | Fingal, supposedly by the medieval poet Ossian, is a forgery in the spirit of the times by James MacPherson | |
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| 1763 |
| | | James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson for the first time, in the London bookshop of Thomas Davies | |
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| 1764 |
| | | English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | |
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| 1764 |
| | | English author Horace Walpole provides an early taste of Gothic thrills in his novel Castle of Otranto | |
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| 1768 |
| | | A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica | |
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| 1770 |
| | | 17-year-old Thomas Chatterton, later hailed as a significant poet, commits suicide in a London garret | |
|  | Thomas Chatterton, engraving after unknown artist, c.1768
National Portrait Gallery, London
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| 1773 |
| | | Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer is produced in London's Covent Garden theatre | |
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