1724 in literature - Definition

See also: 1723 in literature, other events of 1724, 1725 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing, by Anthony Collins
• La Henriade - Voltaire
• L'Histoire d'Angleterre by Paul de Rapin
• Roxana - Daniel Defoe
• Sermons of Samuel Clarke

Births

• April 22 - Immanuel Kant
• July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (died 1803)

Deaths

• January 6 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese author
• February 12 - Elkanah Settle, dramatist
• October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)
• Pierre Hellies - Provencal poet