Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1712
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Literature
- Browne, Posthumous Works
- Button's Coffee House opens
- Samuel Johnson is touched by Queen Anne to be cured of scrofula
- Jonathan Swift, Advice to Members of the October Club,
The Barrier Treaty, Proposal for Correcting and
Ascertaining the English Tongue
Theatre
- John Gay, Mohocks
- Hughes, Calypso and Telemachus
- Charles Johnson, The Wife's Relief
- Ambrose Philips, The Distressed Mother
Art
Music
- George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Il pastor
fido
Science, Technology, & Medicine
Politics & Law
- Peace negotiations begin at Utrecht, culminating in a treaty the next
year
- Arbuthnot, Art of Political Lying; The History of John
Bull
- Sir William Wyndham is appointed Secretary at War
- Carolina is divided into North and South Carolina
- Pennsylvania bans the importation of slaves
Philosophy & Theology
- John Lewis (trans. Revd John Richardson), The Church
Catechism (Caitecism na Heaglaise)
- John Richardson, A Proposal for the Conversion of
the Popish Natives of Ireland
- John Richardson, A Short History of the Attempts that Have
Been Made to Convert the Popish Natives of Ireland, to the
Established Religion: With a Proposal for their Conversion
- William Law receives his M.A. from Cambridge, is ordained, and is
elected fellow of Emmanuel College
Milestones
- June: Birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Birth of John Stanley, composer
- Death of Zachau, composer
Miscellaneous
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