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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Non-fiction 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Spain wages war against the United Kingdom.
• The beginning of the Epsom Derby.
• The victory of John Paul Jones in the American Revolutionary War.
• William Blake enrolls at the Royal Academy
• Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang Goethe is premiered on April 6.

[edit] New books

• Richard Graves - Columella
• Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - Woldemar
• Ignacy Krasicki - Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieści)
• Nocturnal Revels
• Samuel Jackson Pratt as "Courtney Melmoth"
  • Shenstone-Green
  • The Tutor of Truth
• The Sorrows of Werter (anonymous translation of the work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

[edit] New drama

• Fanny Burney - The Witlings
• Hannah Cowley
  • Albina, Countess Raimond
  • Who's the Dupe
• Richard Cumberland - Calypso
• Hugh Downman - Lucius Junius Brutus
• Robert Jephson - The Law of Lombardy
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Nathan der Weise

[edit] Poetry

• William Cowper and John Newton - Olney Hymns
• Robert Furgusson - Poems
• William Hayley - Epistle to Admiral Keppel
• Ann Murry - Poems

[edit] Non-fiction

• Anna Barbauld - Lessons for Children
• James Burnett - Antient Metaphysics
• Edward Capell - Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare
• George Chalmers - Political Annals of the Present United Colonies
• Edward Gibbon - A Vindication of Some Passages in the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• David Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• Samuel Johnson - Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
• Vicessimus Knox - Essays
• John Moore - A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany
• Horace Walpole - A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton

[edit] Births

• January 18 - Peter Mark Roget
• May 28 - Thomas Moore
• August 1 - Francis Scott Key
• December 22 - Thomas Gaisford

[edit] Deaths

• January 20 - David Garrick
• June 7 - William Warburton