Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1737

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Literature

March 2: Samuel Johnson and David Garrick set off for London from Lichfield

Theatre

Licensing Act passed

Art

Music

William Boyce conducts the Three Choirs Festival

Science, Technology, & Medicine

Carolus Linnaeus publishes his classification of plant life in ???

Politics & Law

Licensing Act regulates the theatres

Philosophy & Theology

Laurence Sterne takes orders

Milestones

November: Death of Queen Caroline
Birth of Edward Gibbon
Death of Nathanael Johnson, brother of Samuel Johnson

Miscellaneous

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