This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1750.
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.
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.
The London theatres wage "the Romeo and Juliet war" — competing productions with David Garrick and Anne Bellamy at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane versus 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 1750–51 seasons at Gerolamo Medebach's Teatro San Angelo in Venice – 16 plays.
After taking his MD at Aberdeen, Tobias Smollett travels in France, collecting material for The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
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The Adventures of Mr. Loveill, interspers'd with many real amours of the modern polite world
The Nominal Husband, or, Distress'd Innocence
Revived Fugitive: a novel, translated from the French
Henry Brooke – A New Collection of Fairy Tales
John Cleland – Fanny Hill (official and expurgated)
Sarah Fielding (attributed) – The History of Charlotte Summers
Edward Kimber – The Life and Adventures of Joe Thompson
Charlotte Lennox – The Life of Harriot Stuart
Robert Paltock – The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins
Sarah Scott – The History of Cornelia
Kitty Clive – The Rehearsal, or, Bays in Petticoats
Carlo Goldoni
La Bottega di Caffe (The Coffee Shop)
Il bugiardo (The Liar)
I pettegolezzi delle donne (Women's Gossip)
Il teatro comico (The comic theatre)
Il vero amico (The True Friend)
Agustín Montiano y Luyando – Virginia
William Shirley – Edward the Black Prince
Voltaire – Oreste
William Whitehead – The Roman Father
William Collins – The Passions
Thomas Cooke – An Ode on Martial Virtue
Robert Dodsley – The Oeconomy of Human Life
Mary Jones – Miscellanies
Thomas Warton – The Triumph of Isis
Edward Young – The Complaint (aka Night Thoughts)
John Barrow – Navigatio Britannica
William Blackstone – An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity
John Campbell – The Present State of Europe
Zachary Grey – A Free and Familiar Letter to William Warburton
Eliza Haywood – A Present for Women Addicted to Drinking (on the Gin crisis)
Francis Hutcheson – Reflections Upon Laughter (philosophy of humor)
Agustín Montiano y Luyando – Discurso sobre las tragedias españolas
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (died 1695), edited by Alexander Pope – A Character of King Charles the Second: and political, moral and miscellaneous thoughts and reflections
Laurence Sterne – The Abuses of Conscience
Madeleine de Puisieux – La Femme n’est pas inférieure à l'homme (Woman is not inferior to man)
January 7 – Robert Anderson, Scottish critic (died 1803)
June 13 – James Burney, English rear-admiral and naval writer (died 1821)
September 5 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet writing in Braid Scots (died 1774)
October 21 – Juraj Fándly, Slovak non-fiction writer, entomologist and priest (died 1811)
Unknown date – Henrietta Maria Bowdler, English author and expurgator (died 1830)
February – Aaron Hill, English dramatist (born 1685)
June 15 – Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (born 1684)
November 11 – Apostolo Zeno, Venetian poet and journalist (born 1668)
November 18 – Susanna Highmore, English poet (born 1690)
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