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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1707.




Events


January – The publisher Edmund Curll announces he will publish Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions, even though the rights belong to someone else.
March 8 – George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Beaux' Stratagem is first staged, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.
May 1 – The new sovereign Kingdom of Great Britain comes into being under the Acts of Union. It combines the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into a single realm under Anne, Queen of Great Britain. Supporters of this include Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot.
May 30 – Thomas Wilson, Anglican Bishop of Sodor and Man, publishes Principles and Duties of Christianity... in English and Manks (Coyrie Sodjey), the first book in the Manx language.
September 9 – Richard Steele marries Mary Scurlock. Their literary marriage gains fame through their correspondence.




New books






= Prose

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Anonymous
Memoirs of the Court of England (translation)
The History of the Earl of Warwick; Sirnam'd the King-maker (transl.)
Richard Baxter – The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter
Thomas Brown – The Works of Mr Thomas Brown
Anthony Collins – Essay Concerning the Use of Reason
Jean de Beaugué – Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse (translation by Patrick Abercromby)
François Pétis de la Croix (translated and adapted) – Contes Turcs (Turkish Tales)
Thomas D'Urfey – Stories, Moral and Comical
Laurence Echard – The History of England vol. 1
William Fleetwood – Chronicon Preciosum
Aaron Hart – Urim v'tumim (the first book printed in Hebrew in London)
Alain-René Lesage – Le Diable boiteux (The Devil upon Two Sticks)
Edward Lhuyd – Archaeologia Britannica: an Account of the Languages, Histories and Customs of Great Britain...
Delarivière Manley – The Lady's Pacquet of Letters (fiction)
Isaac Newton – Arithmetica Universalis
John Oldmixon – The Muses Mercury (periodical)
Matthäus Schiner – A Philippick Oration to Incite the English Against the French (translated by John Toland)
Hans Sloane – A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, v. 1
Dr. Thomas Smith – Vitæ quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum
Jonathan Swift – A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
Matthew Tindal – A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church (sequel to 1706 work)
Catherine Trotter – A Discourse Concerning a Guide in Controversies
Isaac Watts – Hymns and Spiritual Songs (frequently reprinted)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon




= Drama

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Joseph Addison – Rosamond (opera)
Susanna Centlivre – The Platonick Lady
Colley Cibber
The Lady's Last Stake
The Double Gallant
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Atrée et Thyeste
George Farquhar – The Beaux' Stratagem
Alain-René Lesage – Crispin rival de son maître
Peter Anthony Motteux – Thomyris, Queen of Scythia (opera)
Nicholas Rowe – The Royal Convert
Nahum Tate – Injur'd Love (an adaptation of Webster's The White Devil)




= Poetry

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Samuel Cobb – Poems on Several Occasions
John Pomfret – Quae Rara, Chara (poem)
Nicholas Rowe – A Poem Upon the Late Glorious Successes
Nahum Tate – The Triumph of Union




Births


January 13 – John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, English writer (died 1762)
January 28 (baptized) – John Baskerville, English printer and typographer (died 1775)
February 14 – Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French novelist (died 1777)
February 25 – Carlo Goldoni, Venetian dramatist (died 1793)
April 20 – Robert Foulis, Scottish printer and publisher (died 1776)
April 22 – Henry Fielding, English novelist (died 1754)
June 22 (baptized) – Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish botanic writer and illustrator (died 1758)
August 14 – Johann August Ernesti, German philologist (died 1781)
September 7 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher (died 1788)
December 18 – Charles Wesley, English hymnist, religious writer and cleric (died 1788)
unknown date – Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Italian rabbi, kabbalist and philosopher (died 1746)




Deaths


January 20 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian (born 1659)
April 20 – George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (born 1677)
June 23 – John Mill, English theologian and exegete (born c. 1645)
August 17 – Petter Dass, Norwegian poet (born 1647)
September 15 – George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (born 1663)
September 23 – John Tutchin, English controversialist (born c. 1660–64)
September 24 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (born 1642)
December 27 – Jean Mabillon, French scholar (born 1632)




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