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The year 1724 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- The performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion
New books
- Anonymous - A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard (attrib. Daniel Defoe)
- Gilbert Burnet - Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time vol i
- Samuel Clarke - Sermons of Samuel Clarke
- Anthony Collins - Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing
- Matthew Concanen - Miscellaneous Poems
- Mary Davys - The Reform'd Captive (fiction)
- Daniel Defoe - Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
- - A New Voyage Round the World
- - A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain
- John Dennis - Vice and Luxury Publick Mischiefs (on Mandeville)
- Richard Fiddes - A General Treatise of Morality (on Mandeville)
- - The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
- Eliza Haywood - La Belle Assemblé
- - The Fatal Secret (fiction)
- - Lasselia
- - The Masqueraders
- - Poems on Several Occasions
- Thomas Hearne - Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion
- William Law - Remarks Upon a Late Book (against Mandeville)
- John Oldmixon - The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil
- Allan Ramsay - The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems
- - Health
- Paul de Rapin - L'Histoire d'Angleterre
- Richard Stukeley - Itinerarium Curiosum
- Jonathan Swift - A Letter to the Shop-keepers... of Ireland (as "M.B. Drapier")
- - A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer (as Drapier)
- - Some Observations Upon a Paper Relating to Wood's Half-pence (as Drapier)
- - A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland (Drapier)
- - A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth (last of the Drapier letters)
- - Seasonable Advice
- Elizabeth Tollet - Poems on Several Occasions
- Voltaire - La Henriade
- Leonard Welsted - Epistles, Odes, &c.
New drama
- Colley Cibber - Caesar in Aegypt
- John Gay - The Captives
- Eliza Haywood - A Wife to be Lett
- Ludvig Holberg - Henrik and Pernille
- William Philips - Belisarius
- Richard Savage - The Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury
Births
- January 24 - Frances Brooke, novelist and dramatist (died 1789)
- April 22 - Immanuel Kant philosopher (died 1804)
- July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (died 1803) )
- October 31 - Christopher Anstey, poet (died 1805)
- December 13 - Franz Aepinus, philosopher (died 1802)
- date unknown - Frances Sheridan, novelist, dramatist and mother of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (died 1766)
- William Gilpin
Deaths
- January 6 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese author (born c.1654)
- February 12 - Elkanah Settle, dramatist (born 1648)
- October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)
- date unknown
- Charles Gildon, critic and dramatist (born c.1665)
- Pierre Hellies - Provencal poet
