Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1748
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Literature
- Akenside, Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon
- John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)
(through 1749)
- Dodsley, A Collection of Poems, vols. 1-3, including Thomas
Gray, "Ode to Spring" and "On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a
Tub of Gold-Fishes"
- Hamilton of Bangour, Poems on Several Occasions
- Samuel Johnson, Preface to The Preceptor
- Melmoth, Letters by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne
- Montesquieu, L'Esprit des Lois
- Tobias Smollett, Roderick Random
- James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence
Theatre
- Henry Fielding opens a puppet theater
- E. Moore, The Foundling
Art
- Gilpin, Dialogue upon the Gardens at Stow
Music
- George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Joshua
- George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Alexander
Balus
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Colin Maclaurin, Account of Sir Isaac Newton's
Philosophical Discoveries (posthumous)
- John Turberville Needham, Observations upon the
Generation, Composition, and Decomposition of Animal and
Vegetable Substances, demonstrating spontaneous generation of
life
- Leonhard Euler of Switzerland, Analysis Infinitorum,
on analytical mathematics
- John Fothergill of England first describes diphtheria
Politics & Law
- The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle
Philosophy & Theology
- David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Milestones
- Birth of Jeremy Bentham
- Birth of Thomas Day
- Death of William Kent, painter, architect, and designer
- Death of James Thomson
- Death of Isaac Watts
Miscellaneous
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