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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person.
• Voltaire is exiled to Tulle.

New books

• Trivia by John Gay
• Oedipe (play) by Voltaire

Births

• December 26 - Thomas Gray († 1771)
• December 26 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet

Deaths

• January 1 - William Wycherley, dramatist
• November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher