1720s
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"For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being the principal breeders of the nation, as well as our most dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose with a design to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have chosen rather to leave their country, than stay at home and pay tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate." --"A Modest Proposal" (1729) by Jonathan Swift |
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Art and culture
- The conviction in 1727 of Edmund Curll for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock was the first conviction for obscenity in Great Britain, and set a legal precedent for other convictions.
- Mother Clap's molly house in London is raided by police, resulting in Mother Clap's death and the public execution by hanging at the Tyburn gallows of all the men arrested (gay culture)
- Edmund Curll arrested for publishing The Prisoner's Advocate, a government spy's (John Ker) memoirs of his experiences in the King's Bench Prison.
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Literature
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Fiction
- In 1724, Edmund Curll published The Nun in her Smock, a pornographic title that argued that it is the church, and not Christ, that forbids sexual exploration
- Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels.
- Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
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Non-fiction
- "Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry" by Alexander Pope .
- A General History of the Pyrates, a historical book on pirates
- The Political History of the Devil, a non-fiction book by Daniel Defoe
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- Catherine the Great, empress of Russia.
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Deaths
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