Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1733

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Literature

Samuel Johnson lives in Birmingham; translates Father Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia
Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
Alexander Pope begins publishing his Imitations of Horace
Samuel Richardson, The Apprentice's Vade Mecum
Laurence Sterne goes to Cambridge

Theatre

Charles Macklin debuts at Drury Lane as "Brazen" in Farquhuar's Recruiting Officer

Art

Music

Science, Technology, & Medicine

Politics & Law

The Excise crisis; Robert Walpole is forced to withdraw the Excise bill
Chesterfield's opposition to the Excise Bill leads to his dismissal as Lord Steward

Philosophy & Theology

John Wesley preaches "The Circumcision of the Heart" at Oxford

Milestones

Birth of Johann Zoffany, painter

Miscellaneous

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