Editing 18th century (section)

==Literary and philosophical achievements==
{{main|18th century in literature|18th century in philosophy}}
* [[1703]]: ''[[The Love Suicides at Sonezaki]]'' by [[Chikamatsu]] first performed
* [[1704]]–[[1717]]: ''[[One Thousand and One Nights]]'' translated into French by [[Antoine Galland]]. The work becomes immensely popular throughout Europe.
* [[1704]]: ''[[A Tale of a Tub]]'' by [[Jonathan Swift]] first published
* [[1712]]: ''[[The Rape of the Lock]]'' by [[Alexander Pope]] (publication of first version)
* [[1719]]: ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' by [[Daniel Defoe]]
* [[1725]]: ''[[The New Science]]'' by [[Giambattista Vico]]
* [[1726]]: ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' by [[Jonathan Swift]]
* [[1728]]: ''[[The Dunciad]]'' by [[Alexander Pope]] (publication of first version)
* [[1744]]: ''[[A Little Pretty Pocket-Book]]'' becomes one of the first [[Children's literature#History|books marketed for children]]
* [[1748]]: ''[[Chushingura]]'' (''The Treasury of Loyal Retainers''), popular Japanese [[bunraku|puppet play]], composed
* [[1748]]: ''[[Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady]]'' by [[Samuel Richardson]]
* [[1749]]: ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]'' by [[Henry Fielding]]
* [[1751]]: ''[[Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]]'' by [[Thomas Gray]] published
* [[1751]]–[[1785]]: The French [[Encyclopédie]]
* [[1755]]: ''[[A Dictionary of the English Language]]'' by [[Samuel Johnson]]
* [[1758]]: ''Arithmetika Horvatzka'' by [[Mihalj Šilobod Bolšić]]
* [[1759]]: ''[[Candide]]'' by [[Voltaire]]
* [[1759]]: ''[[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]]'' by [[Adam Smith]]
* [[1759]]–[[1767]]: ''[[Tristram Shandy]]'' by [[Laurence Sterne]]
* [[1762]]: ''[[Emile: or, On Education]]'' by [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]
* [[1762]]: ''[[Social Contract (Rousseau)|The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right]]'' by [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]
* [[1774]]: ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' by [[Goethe]] first published
* [[1776]]: {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Ugetsu Monogatari]]}} (''Tales of Moonlight and Rain'') by [[Ueda Akinari]]
* [[1776]]: ''[[The Wealth of Nations]]'', foundation of the modern theory of economy, was published by [[Adam Smith]]
* [[1776]]–[[1789]]: ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]'' was published by [[Edward Gibbon]]
* [[1779]]: ''[[Amazing Grace]]'' published by [[John Newton]]
* [[1779]]–[[1782]]: ''[[Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets]]'' by [[Samuel Johnson]]
* [[1781]]: ''[[Critique of Pure Reason]]'' by [[Immanuel Kant]] (publication of first edition)
* [[1781]]: ''[[The Robbers]]'' by [[Friedrich Schiller]] first published
* [[1782]]: ''[[Les Liaisons dangereuses]]'' by [[Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]]
* [[1786]]: ''[[Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect]]'' by [[Robert Burns]]
* [[1787]]–[[1788]]: ''[[The Federalist Papers]]'' by [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[James Madison]], and [[John Jay]]
* [[1788]]: ''[[Critique of Practical Reason]]'' by [[Immanuel Kant]]
* [[1789]]: ''[[Songs of Innocence]]'' by [[William Blake]]
* [[1789]]: ''[[The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano]]'' by [[Olaudah Equiano]]
* [[1790]]: ''[[Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow]]'' by [[Alexander Radishchev]]
* [[1790]]: ''[[Reflections on the Revolution in France]]'' by [[Edmund Burke]]
* [[1791]]: ''[[Rights of Man]]'' by [[Thomas Paine]]
* [[1792]]: ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]'' by [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]
* [[1794]]: ''[[Songs of Experience]]'' by [[William Blake]]
* [[1798]]: ''[[Lyrical Ballads]]'' by [[William Wordsworth]] and [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]
* [[1798]]: ''[[An Essay on the Principle of Population]]'' published by [[Thomas Malthus]]
* (mid–18th century): ''[[The Dream of the Red Chamber]]'' (authorship attributed to [[Cao Xueqin]]), one of the most famous Chinese novels