1715 in literature

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The year 1715 in literature involved some significant events.

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Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
1 September - The death of Louis XIV of France, le Roi-Soleil, after a reign of more than 72 years, leads to the accession of his infant son, Louis XV.
6 September - First of the major Jacobite Rebellions in Scotland against the rule of King George I of Great Britain: The Earl of Mar raises the standard of James Edward Stuart. The rebellion is ended by the Battle of Preston (14 November).

Joseph Addison - The Free-Holder (periodical)
Jane Barker - Exilius; or, The Banished Roman
Richard Bentley - A Sermon upon Popery
Charles Cotton - The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton
Samuel Croxall - The Vision
Daniel Defoe - An Appeal to Honour and Justice
- - The Family Instructor
- - A Hymn to the Mob
Elizabeth Elstob - The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue, first given in English; with an apology for the study of northern antiquities, the first grammar of Old English
Charles Montagu - The Works and Life of the Late Earl of Halifax
Alexander Pope - The Temple of Fame (based on Chaucer)
- - The Iliad of Homer vol. i.
Jonathan Richardson - An Essay on the Theory of Painting
Alexander Smith ("Captain Alexander Smith") - The Secret History of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Beauties, Ladies of Quality, and Jilts
Richard Steele - The Englishman: Second Series (periodical)
- - Town-Talk (periodical)
William Symson - A New Voyage to the East Indies (pseudonymous)
Thomas Tickell - The First Book of Homer's Iliad
Isaac Watts - Divine Songs
- - A Guide to Prayer

Christopher Bullock - The Slip
- - A Woman's Revenge (adapted from Aphra Behn)
Henry Carey - The Contrivances
Susanna Centlivre - The Gotham Election (unacted for political content)
John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Arbuthnot - What d'ye call it?
Benjamin Griffin - Injured Virtue; or, The Virgin Martyr
- - Love in a Sack
Charles Molloy - The Perplex'd Couple
Nicholas Rowe -The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey
Lewis Theobald - The Perfidious Brother (plagiarized)
John Vanbrugh - The Country House

January - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosophical writer (died 1771)
September 30 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosophical writer (died 1780)
Jane Collier
John Hawkesworth
Richard Jago