This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1735.
August 4 – At the end of the trial of John Peter Zenger for seditious libel in the The New York Weekly Journal, he is found not guilty by the jury.
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 ("L'Orphelin de la Maison de Tchao"; 13th century), 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 primarily for literary men.
Anonymous – The Dramatic Historiographer (attrib. Eliza Haywood)
George Berkeley – The Querist
Jane Brereton – Merlin
Henry Brooke – Universal Beauty
Robert Dodsley – Beauty
Benjamin Hoadly – A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper
Hildebrand Jacob
Brutus the Trojan
Works
Samuel Johnson – A Voyage to Abyssinia
Carl Linnaeus – Systema Naturae
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – Letters from a Persian in England
William Melmoth – Of Active and Retired Life
John Oldmixon – The History of England, during the Reigns of William and Mary, Anne, George I
Alexander Pope
An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot (just after Arbuthnot's death)
Of the Characters of Women ("Moral Epistle II")
The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope
Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons (a piracy by Edmund Curll, with forgeries included)
Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years, 1704 to 1734 (authorized)
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
Diego de Torres Villarroel – Conquista del reino de Nápoles por su rey don Carlos de Borbón
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 (adapted from Voltaire) – 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 (a farcical ballad opera adaptation of John Lacy's Sauny the Scot, itself an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew)
John Hughes – Poems on several occasions : With some select essays in prose
Richard Savage – The Progress of a Divine
James Thomson
Ancient and Modern Italy Compared
Greece
Rome
May 23 – Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Netherlandish soldier and writer (died 1814)
July 5 – August Ludwig von Schlözer, German historian (died 1809)
October 25 – James Beattie, Scottish poet and moralist (died 1803)
December 31 – Jean de Crèvecoeur, French-American writer (died 1813)
Unknown date – Anna Hammar-Rosén, Swedish newspaper editor (died 1805)
February 27 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish satirist and polymath (born 1667)
April 5 – Samuel Wesley, English clergyman and poet (born 1662)
April 23 – Edward Hawarden, English controversialist and theologian (born 1662)
June 10 – Thomas Hearne, English antiquary and diarist (born 1678)
July 16 – Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, English historian and travel writer (born 1670)
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