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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1730.

Events

January 7 – The death of the Icelandic scholar Árni Magnússon activates the bequest to the University of Copenhagen in Denmark of the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, which he has assembled.^[1]
January 8 – The Grub Street Journal is launched in London, with Richard Russel and John Martyn as editors.^[2] It lasts for 418 issues.
April 17 – Pietro Metastasio arrives in Vienna, where he settles permanently.^[3]
September/October – Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of Great Britain, in succession to Laurence Eusden.^[4]
December 11 – Voltaire's Brutus is finally staged.^[5]
unknown date – Romeo and Juliet becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed in America, when it is staged in New York City.^[6]

New books

Prose

Joseph Addison – The Evidences of the Christian Religion (posthumous)^[7]
John Bancks – The Weaver's Miscellany^[8]
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix – Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue
Thomas Cooke as "Scriblerus Tertius" – The Candidates for the Bays
Yaakov Culi – Me'am Lo'ez^[9]
Philip Doddridge – Free Thoughts on the Most Probable Means of Reviving the Dissenting Interest
Johann Christoph Gottsched – Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey – Observations on the Writings of the Craftsman
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – An Epistle to Mr. Pope
Pierre des Maizeaux – Vie de Bayle
Isaac Rand – Index plantarum officinalium, quas ad materiae medicae scientiam promovendam, in horto Chelseiano (catalogue of plants in Chelsea Physic Garden)
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg – Das Nord- und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia (North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia)
Jonathan Swift – A Libel on D—— D——, and a Certain Great Lord
Matthew Tindal – Christianity as Old as Creation
William Whiston – Life of Samuel Clarke
William Wotton (posthumous) – A Discourse Concerning the Confusion of Languages at Babel
Edward Young – Two Epistles to Mr. Pope

Drama

Theophilus Cibber – Patie and Peggy (opera)
Henry Fielding
- The Author's Farce
- Rape upon Rape
- The Temple Beau
- Tom Thumb
Charles Johnson – The Tragedy of Medea
George Lillo – Sylvia
Pierre de Marivaux – The Game of Love and Chance
Benjamin Martyn – Timoleon^[10]
James Miller – The Humours of Oxford
John Mottley – The Widow Bewitched
Gabriel Odingsells – Bayes's Opera
James Ralph – The Fashionable Lady
James Thomson – Sophonisba
Edward Ward – The Prisoner's Opera

Poetry

Stephen Duck – Poems on Several Subjects^[11] (including "The Thresher's Labour")
Matthew Pilkington – Poems on Several Occasions
Elizabeth Thomas – The Metamorphosis of the Town^[12]
James Thomson – The Seasons
See also 1730 in poetry

Births

March 27 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English critic (died 1786)
April 1 – Salomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (died 1788)
August 20 – Paul Henri Mallet, Swiss historian (died 1807)
November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (died 1774)
December 6 – Sophie von La Roche (Maria Sophie Gutermann von Gutershofen), German novelist (died 1807)
unknown dates
- Thomas Marryat, English medical writer and physician (died 1792)^[13]
- Joakim Stulić, Croatian lexicographer (died 1817)
- Tarikonda Venkamamba, Telugu poet (died 1817)
probable year – Charlotte Lennox, Gibraltar-born Scottish novelist and poet (died 1804)^[14]

Deaths

January 7 – Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar (born 1663)^[1]
February 9 – Johann Georg von Eckhart, German historian (born 1664)
March 20 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (born 1692)
July 16 – Elijah Fenton, English poet (born 1683)
August 16 – Laurence Echard, English historian (born c. 1670)
September 14 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish poet and writer (born 1659)^[15]
September 27 – Laurence Eusden, English Poet Laureate (born 1688)
October 23 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (born 1683)
November – Nedîm, Ottoman poet (born c. 1680; killed in the Patrona Halil uprising^[16]^[17]

References

^ ^a ^b Jónas Kristjánsson (1993). Icelandic Manuscripts: Sagas, History and Art. Icelandic Literary Society. p. 132. ISBN 978-9979-804-34-5.
^ Rogers, Pat (2004). The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-313-32426-0.
^ Jane Moody; Daniel O'Quinn (25 October 2007). The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830. Cambridge University Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-521-85237-1.
^ John Dryden (1800). The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations. Cadell and Davies. p. 206.
^ Ira O. Wade (8 December 2015). Intellectual Development of Voltaire. Princeton University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4008-7782-9.
^ Keith T. Krawczynski (20 February 2013). Daily Life in the Colonial City. ABC-CLIO. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-313-04704-6.
^ John Clayton (25 November 2006). Religions, Reasons and Gods: Essays in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge University Press. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-139-45926-6.
^ Moyra Haslett (17 July 2003). Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-230-80226-1.
^ Romeu, Pilar (2000): Las llaves del Meam loez: Edición crítica, concordada y analítica de los Índices del Meam loez de la Torá. (in Spanish) Barcelona, page 343
^ Benjamin MARTYN (1730). Timoleon. A tragedy, etc. J. Watts.
^ Batt, Jennifer. "From the Field to the Coffeehouse: Changing Representations of Stephen Duck." Criticism, Landry, D. and W. Christmas, eds. (47):4, pp. 451–70.
^ Virginia Blain et al., eds. "Thomas, Elizabeth". The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990, pp. 1075–1076.
^ Robert Druitt (1859). The Surgeon's vade mecum. .H. Renshaw. p. 763.
^ Manushag N. Powell (29 June 2012). Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals. Bucknell University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-1-61148-417-5.
^ Klasse, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Philosophisch-Historische (1854). Sitzungsberichte (in German). Rohrer. p. 563.
^ Andrews, Walter G. "Nedim" in Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology, pp. 253–255. ISBN 0-292-70472-0.
^ Kemal Sılay (1994). Nedim and the Poetics of the Ottoman Court: Medieval Inheritance and the Need for Change. Indiana University. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-878318-09-1.

[Kristjánsson1993-1] Jónas Kristjánsson (1993). Icelandic Manuscripts: Sagas, History and Art. Icelandic Literary Society. p. 132. ISBN 978-9979-804-34-5.

[2] Rogers, Pat (2004). The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-313-32426-0.

[3] Jane Moody; Daniel O'Quinn (25 October 2007). The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830. Cambridge University Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-521-85237-1.

[4] John Dryden (1800). The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations. Cadell and Davies. p. 206.

[5] Ira O. Wade (8 December 2015). Intellectual Development of Voltaire. Princeton University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4008-7782-9.

[6] Keith T. Krawczynski (20 February 2013). Daily Life in the Colonial City. ABC-CLIO. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-313-04704-6.

[7] John Clayton (25 November 2006). Religions, Reasons and Gods: Essays in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge University Press. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-139-45926-6.

[8] Moyra Haslett (17 July 2003). Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-230-80226-1.

[9] Romeu, Pilar (2000): Las llaves del Meam loez: Edición crítica, concordada y analítica de los Índices del Meam loez de la Torá. (in Spanish) Barcelona, page 343

[10] Benjamin MARTYN (1730). Timoleon. A tragedy, etc. J. Watts.

[11] Batt, Jennifer. "From the Field to the Coffeehouse: Changing Representations of Stephen Duck." Criticism, Landry, D. and W. Christmas, eds. (47):4, pp. 451–70.

[12] Virginia Blain et al., eds. "Thomas, Elizabeth". The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990, pp. 1075–1076.

[13] Robert Druitt (1859). The Surgeon's vade mecum. .H. Renshaw. p. 763.

[14] Manushag N. Powell (29 June 2012). Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals. Bucknell University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-1-61148-417-5.

[15] Klasse, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Philosophisch-Historische (1854). Sitzungsberichte (in German). Rohrer. p. 563.

[16] Andrews, Walter G. "Nedim" in Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology, pp. 253–255. ISBN 0-292-70472-0.

[17] Kemal Sılay (1994). Nedim and the Poetics of the Ottoman Court: Medieval Inheritance and the Need for Change. Indiana University. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-878318-09-1.

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