Gulliver's Travels Published
October 28, 1726
Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, released a satire disguised as a sea-yarn: tiny warring kingdoms, giants who found us contemptible, flying islands of useless savants, and horses more rational than men. Readers laughed first and shivered afterwards. It became, against its author's bitter expectations, a children's classic.
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Also in 1726 (3 other events on record)
- Academy of Sciences Opens in St. Petersburg · Europe · Science
- Montevideo Founded · South America · Exploration
- Cardinal Fleury Takes Power in France · Europe · Politics
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.