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
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Good Friday Agreement (1998)
- Partition of Ireland (1921)
- Plantation of Ulster (1609)
- Saint Patrick (385)
- Irish War of Independence (1919)
- Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921)
Around 1728
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)