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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1730.

Events

• January 8 - The Grub Street Journal is launched in London; it will last for 418 issues.
• April - Metastasio settles in Vienna.
• September/October - Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
• December 11 - Voltaire's Brutus is finally staged.

New books

• Joseph Addison - The Evidences of the Christian Religion (posthumous)
• John Banks - The Weaver's Miscellany
• Thomas Cooke as "Scriblerus Tertius" - The Candidates for the Bays
• Philip Doddridge - Free Thoughts on the Most Probable Means of Reviving the Dissenting Interest
• Johann Christoph Gottsched - Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen
• John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey - Observations on the Writings of the Craftsman
• George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - An Epistle to Mr. Pope
• Jonathan Swift - A Libel on D--- D------, and a Certain Great Lord
• Matthew Tindal - Christianity as Old as Creation
• William Whiston - Life of Samuel Clarke
• William Wotton - A Discourse Concerning the Confusion of Languages at Babel (posthumous)
• Edward Young - Two Epistles to Mr. Pope

New drama

• Theophilus Cibber - Patie and Peggy (opera)
• Henry Fielding
  • The Author's Farce
  • Rape upon Rape
  • The Temple Beau
  • Tom Thumb
• George Lillo - Silvia
• Pierre de Marivaux - Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard
• James Miller - The Humours of Oxford
• John Mottley - The Widow Bewitch'd
• Gabriel Odingsells - Bay's Opera
• James Ralph - The Fashionable Lady
• James Thomson - The Tragedy of Sophonisba

Poetry

• Stephen Duck - Poems on Several Subjects
• Matthew Pilkington - Poems on Several Occasions
• Elizabeth Thomas - The Metamorphosis of the Town
• James Thomson - The Seasons
• See also 1730 in poetry

Births

• March 27 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English critic (died 1786)
• April 1 – Salomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (died 1788)
• August 20 – Paul Henri Mallet, Swiss historian (died 1807)
• November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (died 1774)
• December 6 – Sophie von La Roche (Maria Sophie Gutermann von Gutershofen), German novelist (died 1807)
• Probable year of birth – Charlotte Lennox, Gibraltar-born Scottish novelist and poet (died 1804)

Deaths

• January 7 – Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar (born 1663)
• February 9 – Johann Georg von Eckhart, German historian (born 1664)
• March 20 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (born 1692)
• July 16 – Elijah Fenton, English poet (born 1683)
• August 16 – Laurence Echard, English historian (born c. 1670)
• September 27 – Laurence Eusden, English Poet Laureate (born 1688)
• October 23 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (born 1683)
• Unknown date – Nedîm, Ottoman poet (born c. 1680)