The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called " base-ball "

A Little Pretty Pocket-Book from 1744 by John Newbery was the earliest illustrated storybook marketed as pleasure reading in English.

In the middle 18th century books began appearing specifically for children, and Tom was cited as the author of titles such as Tommy Thumb's Song Book ( 1744 ) and Tommy Thumb's Little Story Book ( c. 1760 ).

The title page from A Little Pretty Pocket-Book ( 1744 ) promises the reader two letters from Jack the Giant Killer.

Research by the Opies indicate that the farce Jack the Giant-Killer was performed at the Haymarket in 1730 ; that John Newbery printed fictional letters about Jack in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book in 1744 ; and that a political satire, The last Speech of John Good, vulgarly called Jack the Giant-Queller, was printed ca.

The earliest printed version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Little Song Book ( c. 1744 ), but the rhyme may be much older.

Woodcut from " A Little Pretty Pocket-Book " ( 1744 ) England, showing first reference to baseball

A 1744 publication in England by children's publisher John Newbery called A Little Pretty Pocket-Book includes a woodcut of stoolball and a rhyme entitled " Base-ball.

" Base-ball " had appeared in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, but no copies of the first edition or other early editions have surfaced to date, only the 10th and later editions of Pocket-Book, from 1760 forward.

She was the author of The Governess, or The Little Female Academy ( 1749 ), which was the first novel in English written especially for children ( children's literature ), and had earlier achieved success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple ( 1744 ).

* 1744 – " Little " Bennett, " Tall " Bennett, George Smith ( Artillery Ground keeper ), Butler, Hodder, Howlett, Norris

The first English collections, Tommy Thumb's Song Book and a sequel, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, are both thought to have been published before 1744, with such songs becoming known as ' Tommy Thumb's songs '.

The first English collections were Tommy Thumb's Song Book and a sequel, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, are both thought to have been published before 1744, and John Newbery's, Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle ( c. 1785 ), is the first record we have of many classic rhymes.

The earliest printed English version is in the oldest extant collection of nursery rhymes, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, printed by John Newbery in London ( c. 1744 ), with the following text:

The first page of the rhyme from a 1815 edition of Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book ( c. 1744 )

The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London about 1744, which uses the opening line: ' Hickere, Dickere Dock '.

This rhyme was first printed in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the oldest surviving collection of English language nursery rhymes, published c. 1744 with the lyrics very similar to those still used today:

The first English collections were Tommy Thumb's Song Book and a sequel, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, both thought to have been published before 1744, and at this point such songs were known as ' Tommy Thumb's songs '.

The earliest record of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published c. 1744, which noted only the first four verses.

* March 1 ( approximately ) – The Great Comet of 1744, one of the brightest ever seen, reaches perihelion

In 1744, La Condamine, in charge of the expedition sent to Peru in 1735 to determine the length of a degree of the meridian arc in the neighbourhood of the equator, passed by and gave his name to one of the mountains behind Kourou.

After he was married in 1742 to Elizabeth Quincy, he fathered four children, including three daughters: one born in 1743, Abigail born in 1744 and another born in 1745.

Satirist Antiokh Dmitrievich Kantemir, 1708 – 1744, was one of the earliest Russian writers not only to praise the ideals of Peter I's reforms but the ideals of the growing Enlightenment movement in Europe.

Sarah Churchill ( née Jenyns, spelt Jennings in most modern references ), Duchess of Marlborough ( 5 June 1660 ( old style ) – 18 October 1744 ) rose to be one of the most influential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with Queen Anne of Great Britain.

In June 1744, following the Lopukhina Affair, they transferred him to Kholmogory on the White Sea, where Ivan, isolated from his family, and seeing no one other than his gaoler ( jailer ), remained for the next twelve years.

* 11 clarinet concertos ( at least one jointly composed with Johann Joseph Beer ( 1744 – 1811 )

The Treasurer has always been elected, and since 1744 the office has rotated between individuals, with a term of one year.

In one of his letters, dated to March 1744, Metastasio made the following comments:

This astronomical Easter was one week before the Gregorian Easter in 1724, 1744, 1778, 1798, etc.

The brutal circumstances of the poet's death prompted one of his visitors in Darien House, the young doctor Andrew Duncan ( 1744 – 1828 ), to pioneer better institutional practices for the treatment of mental health problems through the creation of what is today the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.

Full-length comic operas from Naples and Rome were becoming fashionable ; Galuppi adapted three of them for Venetian audiences in 1744, and the following year composed one of his own, La forza d ’ amore, which was only a mild success.

By 1744, when they appeared onstage together, Macklin had made a name for himself as one of the most notable actors on the British stage, after David Garrick.

Thoresby Hall had one of the finest private libraries in England, which she loved, but it was lost when the building burned in 1744.

He was licensed by the Presbytery of Dunoon in May 1744, and became a minister at Roseneath, Dumbartonshire one year later.

In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography.

He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage ( 1744 ), on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.

Her choice of husband proved an unfortunate one, however, and the poorly-matched couple divorced in 1744.

An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope ( 1688 – 1744 ).

He was MP for Much Wenlock, Shropshire from 1744 to 1754, although he did not apparently contribute much in debates, Dr Johnson commenting that, ironically: Browne, one of the first great wits of this country, got into Parliament and never opened his mouth.

During the War of the Austrian Succession, known in America as King George's War ( 1744 – 1748 ), the third part of the French and Indian Wars ), he was one of several people who proposed an expedition against the French Fortress of Louisbourg on Île-Royale ( present-day Cape Breton Island ).

In 1744 Roman composed one of his finest works, Drottningholmsmusique: a large orchestral suite for the wedding of the Crown Prince Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia.

A year later, Johnson wrote Life of Savage ( 1744 ), a " moving " work that, according to Walter Jackson Bate, " remains one of the innovative works in the history of biography ".

He had one son, another Sir James Steuart Denham, born in 1744, before he went to France.