1730 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1730.

Events

January 7 – The death of the Icelandic scholar Árni Magnússon activates the bequest to the University of Copenhagen in Denmark of the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, which he has assembled.
January 8 – The Grub Street Journal is launched in London, with Richard Russel and John Martyn as editors. It lasts for 418 issues.
April 17 – Pietro Metastasio arrives in Vienna, where he settles permanently.
December 3 – Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of Great Britain, in succession to Laurence Eusden.
December 11 – Voltaire's Brutus is finally staged.
unknown date – Romeo and Juliet becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed in America, when it is staged in New York City.

Joseph Addison – The Evidences of the Christian Religion
John Bancks – The Weaver's Miscellany
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix – Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue
Thomas Cooke as "Scriblerus Tertius" – The Candidates for the Bays
Yaakov Culi – Me'am Lo'ez
Philip Doddridge – Free Thoughts on the Most Probable Means of Reviving the Dissenting Interest
Johann Christoph Gottsched – Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey – Observations on the Writings of the Craftsman
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – An Epistle to Mr. Pope
Pierre des Maizeaux – Vie de Bayle
Isaac Rand – Index plantarum officinalium, quas ad materiae medicae scientiam promovendam, in horto Chelseiano
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg – Das Nord- und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia
Jonathan Swift – A Libel on D—— D——, and a Certain Great Lord
Matthew Tindal – Christianity as Old as Creation
William Whiston – Life of Samuel Clarke
William Wotton – A Discourse Concerning the Confusion of Languages at Babel
Edward Young – ''Two Epistles to Mr. Pope''