Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1757

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Literature

John Brown, An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times
Denis Diderot, Fils Naturel and Entretiens avec Dorval
John Dyer, The Fleece
Thomas Gray, Odes (published by Horace Walpole), including "The Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard"
Samuel Johnson, review of Soame Jenyns, An Enquiry into the Origin of Evil
Horace Walpole sets up a printing press at Strawberry Hill
Whitehead named Poet Laureate
Wilkie, The Epigoniad

Admiral Byng is executed
The Nawab of Bengal is defeated in his attempt to expel the British from India
April: Pitt is dismissed
June: The coalition ministry
Newcastle becomes Lord Treasurer
Pitt becomes Secreatry of State
Anson becomes Secretary of the Admiralty
Halifax takes over the Board of Trade and Plantations
June: Clive wins the Battle of Plassey
Tobias Smollett, Complete History of England (through 1765)
Charitable Musical Society of Dublin founded to give interest-free loans to distressed families

Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful
David Hume, Four Dissertations; "Of Tragedy"