Resumes practice as a physician.
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766 _March 27._ _Vicar of Wakefield_ published. ‘Elegy ona Mad Dog’; ‘Olivia’s Song’ (_Vicar of Wakefield_)._May31._ _Vicar of Wakefield_, 2nd edition._June._Translation of Formey’s _Concise History of Philosophy andPhilosophers_ published._August 29._ _Vicar ofWakefield_, 3rd edition._December 15._ _Poemsfor Young Ladies_ published. 1766 _December 28._ _English Grammar_ written. 1767 _April._ _Beauties of English Poesy_ published. _July 19._ Living in Garden Court, Temple._July 25._Letter to the _St. James’s Chronicle_._December 22._Death of John Newbery. 1768 _February 5._ Publishes _The Good Natur’d Man_, aComedy, produced at Covent Garden, January 29. ‘Epilogue to _TheGood Natur’d Man_.’Moves to 2 Brick Court, Middle Temple. _May._ Death of Henry Goldsmith.Living at Edgware. 1769 _February 18._ ‘Epilogue to Mrs. Lenox’s _ Sister_.’ _February 29._ Agreement for ‘a new Natural History of Animals’ (_AnimatedNature_)._May 18._ _Roman History_published._June 13._ Agreement for _History of England_. _December._ Appointed Professor of History to the Royal Academy. 1770 _January._ Letter to Maurice Goldsmith._April 24–May 26._Portrait by Reynolds exhibited._May 26._ _The DesertedVillage_ published._July 13._ _Life of ThomasParnell_ published._July._ On the Continent with theHornecks. Letters to Reynolds._September 15._ Agreement forabridgement of _Roman History_._December 1._Marchi’s print from Reynold’s portrait published._December 19.__Life of Bolingbroke_ published._Vicar ofWakefield_, 4th edition. 1771 _Haunch of Venison_ written. (?)_August 6.__History of England_ published._December 11._‘Prologue to Cradock’s _ Zobeide_.’ 1772 _February 20._ _Threnodia Augustalis_ published.
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