Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1712

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Literature

Browne, Posthumous Works
Button's Coffee House opens
Samuel Johnson is touched by Queen Anne to be cured of scrofula
Jonathan Swift, Advice to Members of the October Club, The Barrier Treaty, Proposal for Correcting and Ascertaining the English Tongue

Theatre

John Gay, Mohocks
Hughes, Calypso and Telemachus
Charles Johnson, The Wife's Relief
Ambrose Philips, The Distressed Mother

Art

Music

Science, Technology, & Medicine

Politics & Law

The Barrier Treaty ???
Peace negotiations begin at Utrecht, culminating in a treaty the next year
Arbuthnot, Art of Political Lying; The History of John Bull
Sir William Wyndham is appointed Secretary at War

Philosophy & Theology

William Law receives his M.A. from Cambridge, is ordained, and is elected fellow of Emmanuel College

Milestones

June: Birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Birth of John Stanley, composer

Miscellaneous

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