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1732 in literature

See also: 1731 in literature, other events of 1732, 1733 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• First appearance of Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin

New Books

• The Lady's Dressing Room by Jonathan Swift
• Johann Jakob Bodmer's translation of Paradise Lost into German prose
• Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain by John Horsley

Births

• January 24 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799)
• February 19 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
• unknown date - George Colman the Elder

Deaths

• December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)