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On the Theatre Square in Weimar against the Wilttumpalais the " Weimar Comedy House " opens on January 7, in 1780. The highlight of the amateur theatricals was the performance of the prose version of Goethe's Iphigenia under the direction of Goethe and with Corona Schröter in the title role.
In Bordeaux is opened on 7 April, the Grand Theatre, which is referred to by contemporaries as the greatest and most beautiful theaters in France. The game is played at the ceremony Jean Racine's Athalie drama.

The led by Frederick II in 1775 construction of a new library, designed by Philip Michael Bouman and Georg Christian Unger in Berlin is completed. Friedrich made with this library the literature that was previously reserved only for the nobility, ministers, academics and higher civil servants, the bourgeoisie accessible. The establishment at the beginning of the 19th century developed for use by stock and the largest and most powerful library of the German language area.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is founded

Magyar hímondó ( Hungarian Messenger ), the first Hungarian daily published in Bratislava on January 1.
Salomon Gessner is on January 12 in Zurich, the first issue of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung out.
The Irishman James Hicky August is on 29 January in Calcutta " Hicky 's Bengal Gazette" the first English weekly newspaper in India out. Newspaper presented after two years their appearance a.

September 6: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote in pencil on the wooden wall of a hunting lodge on Kickelhahn at Ilmenau in Thuringia Wanderer's Night Song - A match.
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: Your Death
Johann Wolfgang Goethe: The Limits of Humanity
The first edition of Oberon by Christoph Martin Wieland's poem in fourteen songs is printed without naming the author in 1780 in Weimar with Carl Ludolf Hofmann.
Cramer cal Hymnal 915 Christian songs, ed. by Johann Andres Cramer was in use until 1833 in Schleswig -Holstein.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: The education of the human race.
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac: La Logique ou l'art de penser, commande du gouvernement de Pologne pour les écoles palatines.
Joseph Priestley Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever.

January 4: Théophile Marion Dumersan, French playwright, poet, and librettist († 1849)
FEBRUARY 11: Caroline of Günderrode, German writer († 1806)

FEBRUARY 24: Karl Schall, German playwright and translator († 1833)
February 26: August Thieme, German poet († 1860)
MARCH 17: Thomas Chalmers, Scottish writer and founder of the Free Church of Scotland († 1847)
March 26: Julius Eduard Hitzig, German writer and Kammergerichtsrat († 1849)
April 19: Pierre -Jean de Beranger, French poet and lyricist († 1857)
APRIL 23: Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Bavarian patron of the arts and composer, painter and poet (* 1724)
APRIL 29: Charles Nodier, French writer († 1844)
APRIL 29: Claude Joseph Dorat, " Le Chevalier Dorat ", French poet and novelist (* 1734)
MAY 11: Benoit Charles Hare, German classical scholar and librarian († 1864)
June 2: Józef Baka, Polish Jesuit priest, missionary, preacher and poet (* 1707)
AUGUST 19: Pierre -Jean de Beranger, French poet († 1857)
September 3: Georg Heinrich Lünemann, German classical scholar and lexicographer († 1830)
September 8: Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French children's author
September 23: Madame du Deffand, French Solonière and letter writer (* 1697 )

JANUARY 24: Hiraga Gennai, Japanese scholar, inventor and writer (* 1728)
June 2: Józef Baka, Polish Jesuit priest, missionary, preacher and poet (* 1707)
December 24: Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian (b. 1714)

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