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Events

Works published

• Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village"

Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730(?) – April 4, 1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-naturd Man (1768) and She Stoops...

Births

• George Canning
• Joseph Cottle
• James Hogg
• James Plumptre
• William Wordsworth

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Deaths

• June 23 — Mark Akenside, 48, British poet
• Thomas Chatterton, suicide by arsenic poisoning

June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... Mark Akenside (November 9, 1721 – June 23, 1770), was an English poet and physician. ... Thomas Chatterton Thomas Chatterton (November 20, 1752 – August 24, 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. ...

See also

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• Poetry
• List of years in poetry