• March –
The Rambler is founded by
Edward Cave; it lasts for 208 issues, and is mostly written by
Samuel Johnson. •
March 5 –
Shakespeare's
Richard II (in
Colley Cibber's version) is presented at their theatre on
Nassau Street (Manhattan) by Walter Murray and Thomas Kean, the earliest known significant professional performance of Shakespeare in North America. •
unknown dates • Weekly meetings for contributors to the
Encyclopédie begin, at the salon of
Baron d'Holbach. •
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wins the prize of the
Academy of Dijon for his
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences. • London theatres wage "the
Romeo and Juliet war" – competing productions appear with
David Garrick and
Anne Bellamy at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and with
Spranger Barry and
Susannah Cibber at the
Royal Opera House in
Covent Garden. •
Old Orchard Street Theatre opens in
Bath (England) under the management of John Palmer, with a performance of Shakespeare's
Henry IV, Part 2. •
Carlo Goldoni commits himself to writing a comedy for each week of the 1750–1751 seasons at Gerolamo Medebach's
Teatro San Angelo in Venice – 16 plays. • After taking an M.D. at Aberdeen,
Tobias Smollett travels in France, collecting material for
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. ==New books==