1770 _January._ Letter to Maurice Goldsmith. _April 24–May 26._ Portrait by Reynolds exhibited. _May 26._ _The Deserted Village_ published. _July 13._ _Life of Thomas Parnell_ published. _July._ On the Continent with the Hornecks. Letters to Reynolds. _September 15._ Agreement for abridgement of _Roman History_. _December 1._ Marchi’s print from Reynold’s portrait published. _December 19._ _Life of Bolingbroke_ published. _Vicar of Wakefield_, 4th edition. 1771 _Haunch of Venison_ written. (?) _August 6._ _History of England_ published. _December 11._ ‘Prologue to Cradock’s _ Zobeide_.’ 1772 _February 20._ _Threnodia Augustalis_ published. Watson’s Engraving of _Resignation_ published. _December._ Abridgement of _Roman History_ published. 1773 _March 26._ Publishes _She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night_, a Comedy, produced at Covent Garden, March 15. ‘Song in _She Stoops to Conquer_,’ ‘Epilogue to _She Stoops to Conquer_.’ 1773 _March 24._ Kenrick’s libel in the _London Packet_. _March 31._ Letter in the _Daily Advertiser_. _May 8._ _The Grumbler_ produced. Projects a _Dictionary of Arts and Sciences_. 1774 _March 25._ Illness. _April 4._ Death. _April 9._ ‘Buried 9th April, Oliver Goldsmith, MB, late of Brick-court, Middle Temple’ (Register of Burials, Temple Church). _April 19._ _Retaliation_ published. _April._ _Vicar of Wakefield_, 5th edition (dated 1773). _June._ Song (‘Ah me, when shall I marry me?’) published. _June 28._ Letters of Administration granted. _June._ _An History of the Earth and Animated Nature_ published. ‘Translation from Addison.’ (_History_, etc., 1774.) 1776 _The Haunch of Venison_ published. ‘Epitaph on Thomas Parnell,’ and ‘Two Songs from _The Captivity_ (_Haunch of Venison_). Monument with medallion by Nollekens erected in the south transept of Westminster Abbey. 1777 _Poems and Plays_ published. ‘The Clown’s Reply,’ ‘Epitaph on Edward Purdon’ (_Poems_, etc., 1777). 1779 _Vicar of Wakefield_, 6th edition. 1780 _Poetical and Dramatic Works_, Evans’s edition, published. ‘Epilogue for Lee Lewes’ (_Poetical, etc., Works_, 1780).