1718 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1717 in literature, other events of 1718, 1719 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Freethinker (newspaper) is founded by Ambrose Philips and Hugh Boulter.
• Laurence Eusden becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
• Voltaire is released from the Bastille, while Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, begins a two-year sentence.
• Ludvig Holberg becomes a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

New Books

• New version of Christ's Kirk on the Green by Allan Ramsay
• The History of the Saracens, volume 2 - Simon Ockley
• Love in a Veil (play) - Richard Savage
• Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity - John Toland

Births

• May 16 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, philosopher
• July 18 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer
• December 9 - Vincenzo Coronelli

Deaths

• July 28 - Etienne Baluze
• December 6 - Nicholas Rowe