Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1709
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Literature
- William King, The Art of Love
- Delarivier Manley, The New Atalantis
- Alexander Pope, Pastorals
- Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions
- Nicholas Rowe edits the works of Shakespeare (through 1710)
- Shaftesbury, Moralists
- 12 April: Richard Steele begins The Tatler, with contributions
from Joseph Addison
- Jonathan Swift, Baucis and Philemon, Project for the
Advancement of Religion
- Sir William Temple, Memoirs, edited by Jonathan Swift, vol. 3
(posthumous)
- Poetical Miscellanies, edited by Jacob Tonson (including Pope's
Pastorals)
Theatre
- Susanna Centlivre, The Busybody
- John Dennis, Appius and Virginia
Art
- William Kent, painter, architect, and designer, travels to Italy
Music
- Georg Friedrich Händel (or Handel), Agrippina
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Francis Hawksbee makes the first accurate observations of
capillary action in glass tubes
Politics & Law
- The first Copyright Act grants owners fourteen years' protection,
renewable for another fourteen if the author is still alive
- Daniel Defoe, History of the Union of Great Britain
- Peace negotiations between England and France are in full swing
- The Battle of Malplaquet
- Charles XII of Sweden is defeated at Pultowa ???
Philosophy & Theology
- George Berkeley, New Theory of Vision
- Strype, Annals of the Reformation (through 1731)
Milestones
- Birth of John Armstrong
- Birth of Charles Avison, composer
- Birth of George Lyttelton
- Death of John Philips
- September: Birth of Samuel Johnson
Miscellaneous
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