1702 in literature

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The year 1702 in literature involved some significant events.

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March 11 - First publication of the Daily Courant, (First regular daily English-language newspaper.
Sir John Vanbrugh turns from drama to architecture by designing Castle Howard.
Accession of Queen Anne of England upon the death of William III of England.

Thomas Brown, et al. - Letters From the Dead to the Living
Edmund Calamy - An Abridgement of Mr Baxter's History of His Life and Times
Daniel Defoe - An Enquiry into Occasional Conformity
- - The Mock-Mourners (on the death of William III)
- - A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty
- - Reformation of Manners
- - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
- - The Spanish Descent
John Dennis - The Monument
Laurence Echard - A General Ecclesiastical History
George Farquhar - Love and Business
Edmund Gibson - Synodus Anglicana (on the convocation)
Charles Gildon (?) - A Comparison Between the Two Stages (on the "War of the Theatres")
Examen Miscellaneum
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (aka "Clarendon's History")
George Keith - The Standard of the Quakers Examined
Cotton Mather - Magnalia Christi Americana
Matthew Prior - To a Young Gentleman in Love
John Toland - Paradoxes of State
Catherine Trotter Cockburn - A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding (re John Locke)

June 26 - Philip Doddridge, Nonconformist preacher and writer (died 1751)
date unknown
- Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, (died 1788)
- Kenrick Prescot
- Yokai Yagu, Japanese poet (died 1783)

May 27 - Dominique Bouhours, literary critic (born 1628)
date unknown
- Roger Morrice, journalist and diarist (born 1628)
- John Pomfret, English poet (born 1667