Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1727
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Literature
- Daniel Defoe, The History and Reality of Apparitions
- Dorrington, The Hermit, or the History and Adventures of Philip
Quarll
- John Dyer, Grongar Hill (finished)
- John Gay, Fables, vol. 1 (through 1750)
- Harte, Poems on Several Occasions
- Alexander Pope, Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, et al., Scriblerian
miscellanies, vols. 1 and 2, including Peri Bathous (through 1735)
- Somerville, Poems, Translations, and Tales
- Spence, Essay on Pope's Odyssey
- Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies
- James Thomson, Summer
- Warburton, An Inquiry into Prodigies
- Tea Table Miscellany, vol. 3
Theatre
- Lewis Theobald, The Double Falsehood
Art
Music
- George Frederick Händel (or Handel) becomes a
naturalized British citizen
- George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Admeto
- George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Riccardo I
- Famous quarrel between Cuzzoni and Faustina at the Royal
Academy of Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica, first translated into
English
Politics & Law
- 11 June: George I dies; George II accedes to the throne
- The Siege of Gibraltar
Philosophy & Theology
- Lardner, The Credibility of the Gospel History (through 1757)
- Thomas Woolston, Discourses on the Miracles of Christ (through
1729)
Milestones
- 11 June: Death of George I
- Birth of George Murphy
- Death of Isaac Newton
- Birth of John Wilkes
Miscellaneous
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