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This article is a summary of literary events and publications during 1764. ==Events== *January 19 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel for his article criticising King George III in ''The North Briton''. *February - Samuel Johnson co-founds The Club, a literary dining club, in London. *June 21 - The ''Quebec Gazette'' newspaper begins publication; its successor will still be published . *October 15 - While visiting Rome, Edward Gibbon conceives the idea of writing ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' "as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter".〔 Gibbon is at the Franciscan Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on the Capitoline Hill which is actually on the site of the Temple of Juno. 〕 *October 29 - The ''Hartford Courant'' newspaper begins publication in Connecticut. *December 24 - Publication of Horace Walpole's ''The Castle of Otranto'' ("A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto"), the first Gothic novel, at his Strawberry Hill Press in England. *French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy deciphers the Phoenician language using the inscriptions on the Cippi of Melqart from Malta. *Mme. Necker and Mlle. de Lespinasse establish literary salons in Paris 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1764 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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