1730 in literature
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See also: 1729 in literature, other events of 1730, 1731 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Voltaire's Brutus is finally staged.
- Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain
- Metastasio settles in Vienna
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New books
- Christianity as Old as Creation - Matthew Tindal
- Life of Samuel Clarke - William Whiston
- Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen - Johann Christoph Gottsched
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Births
- March 27 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, critic
- April 1 - Solomon Gessner
- August 20 - Paul Henri Mallet
- November 10 (probable) - Oliver Goldsmith
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Deaths
- September 27 - Laurence Eusden, Poet Laureate
- October 23 - Anne Oldfield, actress