Events
- Sir Samuel Garth, poet and royal physician, is knighted by King George I of Great Britain
- Death of Queen Anne of Great Britain, which threw many writers out of position and put them into opposition.
- Accession of George I of the United Kingdom, who brought with him a whig ministry, and notably the rise of Robert Walpole and indictment and trial of both Robert Harley and Henry St. John.
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