August 8 –
Jonathan Swift writes to
Alexander Pope describing the deterioration in his mental condition; Swift will eventually be given into the care of a legal guardian.[2]
John Banks – Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten – De ordine in audiendis philosophicis per triennium academicum quaedam praefatus acroases proximae aestati destinatas indicit Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
Louis de Beaufort – Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq prèmiers siècles de l'histoire romaine