1754 - Theater, Film

Theater, Film

Theater: English actress Frances Abington (née Barton), 18, makes her debut at London's Haymarket Theatre after a career as flower girl, street singer, milliner, and kitchenmaid. She will perform at the Haymarket until 1759, play in Dublin, and return to London to join David Garrick's company at the Drury Lane, excelling in comic roles.

Danish playwright-poet-essayist Ludvig, Friherre (Baron) Holberg dies at Copenhagen January 28 at age 69. He has been the leading voice of the Enlightenment in Scandinavia and called "the Molière of the North"; playwright-novelist Henry Fielding travels to Portugal for his health but dies at Lisbon October 8 at age 47. His travel account Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon will be published next year.