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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1712'''.

==Events==
*[[July 7]] – [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke|Henry St. John]] is raised to the [[peerage of Great Britain]] as [[Viscount Bolingbroke]] for services in [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer|Robert Harley]]'s [[Tories (British political party)|Tory]] ministry.
*[[August 14]] – [[Alexander Pope]] outlines his project for a satirical periodical, ''The Works of the Unlearned'', from which develops the [[Scriblerus Club]], whose members include Pope, [[Jonathan Swift]], [[John Gay]], [[Thomas Parnell (poet)|Thomas Parnell]], [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer|Robert Harley]], [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]], and Dr [[John Arbuthnot]] at whose house they meet.
*[[August 23]] – [[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu|Lady Mary Pierrepont]] marries [[Edward Wortley Montagu (diplomat)|Edward Wortley Montagu]], after an elopement.
*[[October 31]] – King [[Philip V of Spain]] establishes the [[Biblioteca Nacional de España]] as the Palace Public Library (Biblioteca Pública de Palacio) in [[Madrid]].
*[[November 4]] – [[Jonathan Swift]] foils a murder attempt on [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer]], in what becomes known as the [[Bandbox Plot]].
*[[November 7]] – [[Charles Johnson (writer)|Charles Johnson]]'s dramatisation of episodes from the life of [[Henry Every]], ''[[The Successful Pyrate]]'', receives its première at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]]. Although it is primarily satirical, [[John Dennis (dramatist)|John Dennis]] subsequently complains to [[Charles Killigrew]], [[Master of the Revels]], that the play glamorizes [[pirate]]s. The controversy contributes to its theatrical success.<ref>{{cite book|author=William J. Burling|title=A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMQJxeNpHR0C&pg=PA53|year=1992|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3451-6|pages=53}}</ref>
*''unknown date'' – [[Shota Rustaveli]]'s 12th-century poem ''[[The Knight in the Panther's Skin]]'' is first printed, in [[Tbilisi]].

==New books==
===Prose===
*[[John Arbuthnot]] – ''Law Is a Bottomless Pit'' (introducing the character of [[John Bull]];<ref>"AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion," [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (2006), exhibition brochure, p. 2.</ref> first in a series of five tracts collected as ''The History of John Bull'' in the same year)
*[[George Berkeley]] – ''Passive Obedience''
*[[Jean-Paul Bignon]] – ''Les Avantures d'Abdalla, fils d'Hanif (The adventures of Abdalla, son of Hanif)''
*[[Richard Blackmore]] – ''Creation''
*[[James Brome]] – ''Travels through Portugal, Spain, and Italy''
*Sir [[Thomas Browne]] – ''Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne''
*[[Samuel Clarke]] – ''The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity''
*[[Daniel Defoe]] (attrib) – ''A Further Search into the Conduct of the Allies''
*[[John Dennis (dramatist)|John Dennis]] – ''An Essay upon the Genius and Writings of Shakespear''
*[[William Diaper]] 
**''Dryaides''
**''Nereides''
*[[Thomas Ellwood]] – ''Davideis: the Life of David, King of Israel''
*[[John Gay]] – ''The [[Mohocks]]''
*[[Bernard de Mandeville]] – ''Typhon''
*[[John Oldmixon]]
**''The Dutch Barrier Ours''
**''Reflections on Dr Swift's Letter to the Earl of Oxford, about the English Tongue''
**''The Secret History of Europe''
*[[Thomas Otway]] – ''The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway''
*[[Woodes Rogers]] – ''A Cruising Voyage round the World: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope''
*[[Nicholas Rowe (writer)|Nicholas Rowe]] – ''Callipaedia'' (translation)
*[[George Sewell (physician)|George Sewell]] – ''The Patriot''
*[[Richard Steele]] (as Scoto-Brittanus) – ''The Englishman's Thanks to the Duke of Marlborough''
*[[Jonathan Swift]]
**''A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'' (signed)
**''Some Advice Humbly Offer'd to the Members of the October Club''
*[[Leonard Welsted]] – ''The Works of Dionysius Longinus, on the Sublime'' (among earliest translations of ''περί ύπσος'' in English)

===Drama===
*[[Susanna Centlivre]] – ''The Perplex'd Lovers''
*[[Pierre de Marivaux]] – ''Le Père prudent et equitable''
*[[Charles Johnson (writer)|Charles Johnson]] – ''[[The Successful Pyrate]]''
*[[John Philips]] – ''The Distrest Mother''

===Poetry===
*[[George Granville, Lord Lansdowne]] – ''Poems Upon Several Occasions''
*[[Peter Anthony Motteux]] – ''A Poem Upon Tea''
*[[John Philips]] (died 1709) – ''Poems''
*[[Alexander Pope]]
**''[[The Rape of the Lock]]'' (first version, anonymous)
**''Miscellaneous Poems and Translations''
*[[Matthew Prior]] – ''Erle Robert's Mice'' (imitation of Chaucer)
*[[Thomas Tickell]] – ''A Poem, to his Excellency the Lord Privy-Seal''
*John Wright – ''The Best Mirth'' (hymns)
''See also [[1712 in poetry]]''

==Births==
*[[March 22]] – [[Edward Moore (dramatist)|Edward Moore]], English dramatist (died [[1757 in literature|1757]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Restoration and 18th-Century Drama |date=November 1980 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-16422-6 |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OD9dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[June 28]] – [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], Swiss philosopher (died [[1778 in literature|1778]])
*[[September 15]] – [[Pierre Simon Fournier]], French typographer (died [[1768 in literature|1768]])
*[[November 1]] – [[Antonio Genovesi]], Italian philosopher (died [[1769 in literature|1769]])
*[[December 11]] – Count [[Francesco Algarotti]], Italian philosopher and art critic. (died [[1764 in literature|1764]])
*''unknown date'' – [[Richard Glover (poet)|Richard Glover]], English poet (died [[1785 in literature|1785]])<ref>{{cite book|author=English poets|title=Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jkgCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA233|year=1862|pages=233–}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[February 5]] ''(burial)'' – [[John Norris (philosopher)|John Norris]], English philosopher and poet (born [[1657 in literature|1657]])
*[[April 5]] – [[Jan Luyken]], Dutch poet and artist (born [[1649 in literature|1649]])
*[[April 11]] – [[Richard Simon (priest)|Richard Simon]], French Biblical critic and priest (born [[1638 in literature|1638]])
*[[April 30]] – [[Philipp van Limborch]], Dutch theologian (born [[1633 in literature|1633]])
*[[June 12]] – [[Carlo Alessandro Guidi]], Italian poet (born [[1650 in literature|1650]]) 
*[[August 3]] – [[Joshua Barnes]], English scholar and Utopian fiction writer (born [[1654 in literature|1654]])
*[[September 23]] – [[Thomas Halyburton]], Scottish theologian (born [[1674 in literature|1674]])
*[[December 25]] – [[William King (poet)|William King]], English poet (born [[1663 in literature|1663]])
*''probable'' – [[Edward Howard (playwright)|Edward Howard]], English playwright and poet (born [[1624 in literature|1624]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alexander Pope|title=The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Dunciad (1728) & The Dunciad Variorum (1729)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Ghys7hD2WAC&pg=PA408|year=2007|publisher=Pearson/Longman|isbn=978-0-582-42342-8|pages=408}}</ref>

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