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Revision as of 23:26, 13 March 2010
The century of the 1700s.
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Selected Magic Events By Year
(Click on date to see all magic events in that year)
- 1700-Unexact dates - Round About Our Coal Fire: or, Christmas Entertainments is published circa 1700
- 1703 - Arts Improvement:or, Choice Experiments is published
- 1706 - Gilles-Edme Guyot is born in France
- 1708 - Recreations Mathematical and Physical is translated and published from the earlier French version
- 1710 - Legerdemain: or, Natural and Artificial Conclusions and Hocus Pocus Improved is published
- 1716 - The Merry Companion; or Delights for the Ingenious, written by Richard Neve, is published
- 1717 - Jacques Ozanam dies
- 1721 - Hocus Pocus: or, The Cabinet of Legerdemain Curiosities Broke Open, by Richard Neve, is published
- 1722 - The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus Pocus in Perfection, a book written by Henry Dean, is published in London.
- 1726 - Philip Breslaw, a German magician who specialized in close-up performances, is born
- 1731 - Isaac Fawkes, an English conjurer and showman, dies
- 1732 - Christopher Pinchbeck, a clockmaker, dies
- 1735 - Philadelphus Philadelphia, a magician born in the U.S. and who performed extensively in Europe, is born
- 1740 - A description of the Indian Rope Trick appears in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
- 1742 - The "father of modern circus", Philip Astley, is born
- 1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, who acted in as a magician, prophet, and exorcist, is born
- 1746 - Henri Decremps, who unmasked magicians and charlatans who cheated others, is born
- 1750 - Chevalier Giuseppe Pinetti, a major figure of eighteenth century magic, is born
- 1756 - William Godwin, author of numerous books, including Lives of the Necromancers, is born
- 1758 - Philadelphus Philadelphia goes on tour throughout England
- 1760 - The successful magician Eliaser Bamberg is born
- 1769 - Nouvelles Récréations mathématiques et physiques, by Gilles-Edme Guyot, is first published
