1735 in literature

Events

• May 10 – Charles Macklin unintentionally kills another actor, Thomas Hallam, during a fight at Drury Lane Theatre, in front of witnesses; Macklin is later convicted of manslaughter.
• August 4 – A jury finds John Peter Zenger not guilty of seditious libel in The New York Weekly Journal.
• September 3 – Samuel Johnson marries Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, twenty years his senior, at St Werburgh's Church, Derby.
• Jesuit scholar Jean-Baptiste Du Halde publishes Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinois in Paris, including Father Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare's translation of The Orphan of Zhao, the first Chinese play to have been published in any European language.
• The Sublime Society of Beef Steaks is established by John Rich at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, as a dining club mainly for literary men.

  New books

Prose

• Anonymous
• *Of the Characters of Women
• *The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope
• *Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons
• *Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years, 1704 to 1734
• Antoine François Prévost – Le Doyen de Killerine
• Samuel Richardson – A Seasonable Examination of the Pleas and Pretensions of the Proprietors of, and Subscribers to, Play-Houses
• Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke – A Dissertation upon Parties
• William Somervile – The Chace
• Jonathan Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot, et al.
• *Miscellanies in Prose and Verse: Volume the Fifth
• *Works
• Claudine Guérin de Tencin – Mémoires du comte de Comminge
• Diego de Torres Villarroel – Conquista del reino de Nápoles por su rey don Carlos de Borbón

  Drama

• Henry Carey – The Honest Yorkshireman
• Charlotte Charke – The Art of Management
• Charles Coffey – The Merry Cobbler
• Robert Dodsley – The Toyshop
• William Duncombe – Junius Brutus
• Henry Fielding
• *An Old Man Taught Wisdom
• *The Universal Gallant
• Aaron Hill – Zara
• George Lillo – The Christian Hero
• James Miller – The Man of Taste
• William Popple – The Double Deceit
• Lewis Theobald – The Fatal Secret
• James Worsdale – A Cure for a Scold

  Poetry

• John Hughes – Poems on several occasions : With some select essays in prose
• Hildebrand Jacob – Brutus the Trojan
• Richard Savage – The Progress of a Divine
• James Thomson
• *Ancient and Modern Italy Compared
• *Greece
• *Rome

  Births

• January 31 – Jean de Crèvecoeur, French-American writer
• May 23 – Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Netherland soldier and writer
• July 5 – August Ludwig von Schlözer, German historian
• October 25 – James Beattie, Scottish poet and moralist
• Unknown date – Anna Hammar-Rosén, Swedish newspaper editor

  Deaths

• February 27 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish satirist and polymath
• April 5 – Samuel Wesley, English clergyman and poet
• April 23 – Edward Hawarden, English controversialist and theologian
• June 10 – Thomas Hearne, English antiquary and diarist
• July 16 – Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, English historian and travel writer