Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1732

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Literature

Samuel Johnson is an usher at Market Bosworth School
Alexander Pope, Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, et al., Scriblerian miscellanies, vol. 4 (through 1735)

Theatre

Art

William Hogart, A Harlot's Progress

Music

Giovanni Bononcini accused of plagiary and association with an alchemist ???

Science, Technology, & Medicine

Politics & Law

Philosophy & Theology

Isaac Watts, Scripture History
John Wesley first visits William Law
George Whitefield enters Pembroke College, Oxford, and becomes a Methodist

Milestones

Death of John Gay
Birth of John Wood the Younger, architect

Miscellaneous

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