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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1726.

Events

  • February – Lavinia Fenton makes her stage debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
  • April 5 – Publication takes place in London of Lewis Theobald's Shakespeare Restored, or A Specimen of the Many Errors As Well Committed as Unamended by Mr Pope in his Late Edition of this Poet; Designed Not only to correct the said Edition, but to restore the True Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions ever yet published.{{cite book|author1=Peter Seary|author2=Associate Professor Department of English New College Peter Seary|title=Lewis Theobald and the Editing of Shakespeare|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pYNlAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-812965-3|page=64}}
  • May 10 – Voltaire leaves France for a three-year stay in Britain.{{cite book|author=Roger Pearson|title=Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FbklD47SK1UC&pg=PT84|date=15 December 2010|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4088-2080-3|pages=84–}}
  • May 25 – Britain's first circulating library is opened in Edinburgh by the poet and bookseller Allan Ramsay.{{Cite book |authorlink=Richard Altick |last=Altick |first=Richard D. |title=The English Common Reader |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1957}}{{Cite web |title=Chronology of Scottish History |work=A Timeline of Scottish History |publisher=Rampant Scotland |url=http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm |accessdate=2014-08-15}}
  • July – Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism to receive a church pension, and annuls her marriage.{{cite book|author=Rousseau, Jean-Jacques|title=Mémoire à M. Boudet: Nouvelle édition augmentée|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjbfAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA8|date=18 February 2014|publisher=Arvensa editions|isbn=979-10-273-0033-4|pages=8}}
  • October 28 – Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels is published in London, anonymously in two volumes, as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. It sells out in a week.
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  • The Teatro Valle opens in Rome.
  • In China, 64 copies of a 5,020-volume encyclopedia, the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (古今圖書集成), are printed, requiring the crafting of 250,000 movable type characters cast in bronze. The text was drafted by Chen Menglei in 1700–05 and prepared for publication by around 1725.{{Cite book|last=Elman|first=Benjamin A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qm57OqARqpAC&dq=chen+menglei&pg=PA238|title=On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900|date=2009|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-674-03647-5|language=en}}

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