Samuel Johnson's The Rambler Begins Publication
Samuel Johnson begins publishing The Rambler. It was "published on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 1750 to 1752 and totals 208 articles. It was Johnson's most consistent and sustained work in the English language," and was written in "elevated prose" (Wikipedia; see also Jack Lynch, http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Johnson/Guide/who.html).