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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

• January 19 - Franziska Stading plays the female lead in Gustav Vasa at the Royal Swedish Opera.
• The Story of the Learned Pig (anonymous) is one of the first books to cast doubt on the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays.

New books

• William Thomas Beckford - Vathek
• James Boswell - Dorado, a Spanish Tale (published anonymously)
• The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, translated from the German by G. A. Bürger
• Harriet Lee - The Errors of Innocence
• Sarah Trimmer - Fabulous Histories

New drama

• Tituš Brezovački - Sveti Aleksij
• John Burgoyne - The Heiress
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - [[Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe)|Iphigenia in Tauris (verse version)
• Elizabeth Inchbald – The Widow’s Vow

Poetry

• Robert Burns - Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

Non-fiction

• Hester Thrale - Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson

Births

• February 3 - Wilhelm Gesenius, philologist and theologian (d. 1842
• February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1859)
• May 12 - Jean-François Barrière, historian (d. 1868)
• June 20 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, poet (d. 1859)
• August 25 - James Silk Buckingham, journalist and travel writer (d. 1855)
• October 23 - Barron Field, poet (d. 1846)

Deaths

• January 19 - John Duncombe, poet and journalist (b. 1729)
• March 11 - Jacobus Bellamy, poet (b. 1757)
• May 4 - Johann Kaspar Füssli, artist, scientist and publisher (b. 1743)
• August 15 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, critic (b. 1730)
• December 26 - Gasparo Gozzi, dramatist and critic (b. 1713)
• date unknown
  • Jan Tomáš Kuzník, musician and poet (b. 1716)
  • Thomas Thistlewood, diarist (b. 1721)

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