1722 in literature
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See also: 1721 in literature, other events of 1722, 1723 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Voltaire and Jean-Baptiste Rousseau meet and quarrel at Brussels.
- Ten-year-old Jean-Jacques Rousseau is abandoned by his father, Isaac.
New Books
- Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
- A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
Births
- April 11 - Christopher Smart, English poet (died 1771)
- September 22 - John Home, Scottish dramatist (died 1808)
- Joseph Warton, English poet and critic (died 1800)
Deaths
- March 11 - John Toland, philosopher (born 1670)
- September 18 - André Dacier, French scholar
