1707 in literature

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The year 1707 in literature involved some significant events.

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May 1 - The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being as a result of the Acts of Union which combine the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single realm under Queen Anne, with the support of Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot.
September 9 - Richard Steele marries Mary Scurlock – one of the most famous literary marriages of all time, thanks to their correspondence.
Controversial publisher Edmund Curll announces to the press that he will publish Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions –- even though the rights belong to someone else.

Anonymous - Memoirs of the Court of England (translation)^[1]
- - The History of the Earl of Warwick; Sirnam'd the King-maker (transl.)^[1]
Richard Baxter - The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter^[1]
Thomas Brown - The Works of Mr Thomas Brown^[1]
Anthony Collins - Essay Concerning the Use of Reason^[1]
Jean de Beaugué - Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse (translation by Patrick Abercromby)
Thomas D'Urfey - Stories, Moral and Comical^[1]
Laurence Echard - The History of England vol. 1^[1]
Aaron Hart - Urim v'tumim (the first book printed in Hebrew in London)^[2]
Delarivière Manley - The Lady's Pacquet of Letters (fiction)^[1]
Isaac Newton - Arithmetica Universalis
John Oldmixon - The Muses Mercury (periodical)^[1]
Matthäus Schiner, A Philippick Oration to Incite the English Against the French (translated by John Toland)
Jonathan Swift - A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
Matthew Tindal - A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church (seq. to 1706 work)^[1]
Catherine Trotter - A Discourse Concerning a Guide in Controversies^[1]
Isaac Watts - Hymns and Spiritual Songs (frequently reprinted thereafter)^[1]
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon^[1]
Dr. Thomas Smith - Vitæ quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum

January 13 - John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer (died 1762)
February 14 - Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, novelist (died 1777)
February 25 - Carlo Goldoni, dramatist (died 1793)
April 22 - Henry Fielding, novelist (died 1754)
August 14 - Johann August Ernesti, philologist (died 1781)
September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher (died 1788)
Charles Wesley, Church of England clergyman and one of the architects of Methodism

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Gow, Andrew Colin (2004). "Hart, Aaron (1670–1756)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12467. Retrieved 2011-12-09. subscription or UK public library membership required