Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1724

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Literature

Daniel Defoe, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, vol. 1; Roxana
Eliza Haywood, Memoirs of a Certain Island
Charles Johnson, General History of the Pirates
Allan Ramsay, Ever Green
Tea Table Miscellany, vol. 1 (through 1727)

Theatre

John Gay, The Captives

Art

Music

Giovanni Bononcini in the Duchess of Marlborough's service (through 1731)
George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Giulio Cesare
George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Tamerlano

Science, Technology, & Medicine

Politics & Law

Boyle, State Letters
Carteret (Granville) is dismissed from his post as Secretary of State and is replaced by Newcastle
Wood proposes his halfpence for Ireland
Disturbances in Scotland over the Malt Tax
John Oldmixon, A Critical History of England
Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letters

Philosophy & Theology

Anthony Collins, Grounds of the Christian Religion

Milestones

Birth of Frances Brooke
Death of Charles Gildon
Birth of Immanuel Kant
Birth of William Mason
Death of Elkanah Settle
Birth of George Stubbs, engraver

Miscellaneous

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