Events
- Voltaire arrives for a 3 year stay in England.
- Lavinia Fenton makes her debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre.
- Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism.
- The Gujin tushu jicheng, an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing.
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