Oliver Goldsmith
1728–1774 · Person
Irish essayist, novelist, playwright and poet — The Vicar of Wakefield, She Stoops to Conquer, The Deserted Village — Johnson's beloved, feckless friend.
On these timelines: Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Arts and Thoughts, United Kingdom (combined), England, Master
More from Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Good Friday Agreement (1998)
- Partition of Ireland (1921)
- Plantation of Ulster (1609)
- Saint Patrick (385)
Around 1728
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)