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Events
New releases
Prose
- John Armstrong under the pseudonym Launcelot Temple - Sketches
- Charlotte Lennox - Henrietta
- Horace Walpole A Dialogue Between Two Great Ladies
- Fugitive Pieces
Drama
- John Cleland - Tombo - Chiqui, or, The American Savage
- Denis Diderot - Le père de famille
- Robert Dodsley - Cleone
- David Garrick - Florizel and Perdita
- John Home - Aegis
- Charlotte Lennox - Philander
- Arthur Murphy - The Upholsterer
- George Alexander Stevens - Albion Restored
Poetry
- Mark Akenside - An Ode to the Country Gentlemen
- John Gilbert Cooper - The Call of Aristippus
- James Macpherson - The Highlander
- Thomas Parnell - Posthumous Works
Non-fiction
- William Battie - A Treatise on Madness
- William Blackstone - A Discourse on the Study of Law
- John Brown - An Explanatory Defence of the Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times
- Elizabeth Carter (ed.) - All the Works of Epicetus
- Benjamin Franklin - Father Abraham 's Sermon
- Oliver Goldsmith as James Willington - The Memoirs of a Protestant
- William Hawkins - Tracts in Divinity
- Claude Adrien Helvetius - De l' Esprit
- Henry Home - Historical Law - Tracts
- Robert Lowth - The Life of William of Wykeham
- Dom Pernetty - Dictionnaire mytho - hermétique
- Antoine Simon Le Page You Pratz - Histoire de la Louisiane
- Richard Price - A Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties in Morals
- Jonathan Swift - The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen
- Horace Walpole - A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England
- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann - From national pride
Born
- JANUARY 26: Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Meyer, German jurist, scholar, librarian, journalist and playwright († 1840)
- February 01: Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, Mecklenburg pastor and writer († 1818)
- FEBRUARY 10: Amalia Holst, German educator and suffragist († 1829)
- FEBRUARY 23: Vasily Vasilyevich Kapnist, Russian marshal of Poltava and writer († 1823)
- March 03: Carl Gottlob Cramer, German writer and forester († 1817)
- April 03: Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez, Colombian journalist and librarian († 1819)
- APRIL 16: Christian Massenbach, Prussian colonel and writer († 1827)
- April 25: Friedrich Wilhelm von Schütz, German publicist ( † 1834)
- AUGUST 29: Franz Anton von Hartig, Austrian diplomat, historian, poet and geographer († 1797)
- September 10: Hannah Webster Foster: North American writer († 1840)
- SEPTEMBER 25: Michael Franz Four Thaler, Austrian educator, school reformer, writer and journalist († 1827)
- 05 October: August Lafontaine, German writer († 1831)
- OCTOBER 15: Benedict David Arnstein, first dramatic writer of German- Austrian Jewish origin († 1841)
- October 16: Noah Webster, American lexicographer, translator and writer († 1843)
- October 20: August Lafontaine, German writer († 1831)
- November 16: Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish satirist († 1841)
- NOVEMBER 19: Carl Andreas von Bogusławski, German General, translator and author († 1817)
- 09 November: Arnold Robens, secretary of Jülichschen knighthood, Secretary of Legation of the Palatine Vogt majors in Aachen and finally Deputy Mayor of the City of Aachen and Herald († 1820)
- November 20: Georg Friedrich Fickert, German hymn writer and pastor († 1815)
- NOVEMBER 20: Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de la Reynière, French jurist, gastrosopher and writer († 1837)
- December 08: Engel Christine Westphalen, German writer († 1840)
- DECEMBER 23: Franz Xaver Bronner, Swiss poet, publicist and archivist of German origin ( † 1850)
- Without exact date: James T. Callender, Scottish journalist and satirist († 1803)
- Without exact date: Giambattista Giusti, Italian engineer and translator († 1823)
- Without exact date: Józef Kopeć, Polish patriot, General and diarist († 1827)
- Without exact date: August Jacob Liebeskind, German pastor in Oßmannstedt, author and tutor of the children of Johann Gottfried Herder's and son Christoph Martin Wieland and fairy tales author († 1793)