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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 2.1 Poetry 2.2 Fiction 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• The Peace of Versailles ending the American Revolution formally.
• The first prime ministry of William Pitt the Elder
• Friedrich Schiller leaves Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution.
• William Cobbett arrives in London.
• August von Kotzebue is appointed to the high court of appeal in Reval.

New books

• James Beattie - Dissertations Moral and Critical
• William Beckford - Dreams, Waking Thughts and Incidents
• Hugh Blair - Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
• Edmund Burke - Letter on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics
• Adam Ferguson - History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic
• William Godwin - Life of Lord Chatham
• Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
• Vicesimus Knox - Elegant Extracts
• Ezra Stiles - The United States elevated to Glory and Honor
• Horace-Bénédict de Saussure - Essai sur l'hygrométrie

Poetry

• Lady Anne Barnard - Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
• William Blake - Poetical Sketches
• Jane Cave - Poems
• Judith Cowper - The Progress of Poetry
• George Crabbe - The Village
• Joseph Ritson - A Select Collection of English Songs
• John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians

Fiction

• Thomas Day - The History of Standford and Merton
• Eleanor Fenn as "Mrs. Teachwell" - Fables by Mrs. Teachwell
• Thomas Holcroft - The Family Picture
• Sophia Lee - The Recess
• Anna Maria Mackenzie - Burton-Wood
• Clara Reeve - The Two Mentors

New drama

• Frances Brooke - Roxina
• Hannah Cowley - Which is the Man?

Births

• January 23 - Stendhal, novelist
• April 3 - Washington Irving, short story writer
• Simon Bolivar, South American revolutionary

Deaths

• January 2 - Johann Jakob Bodmer, journalist and critic
• April 17 - Louise d'Epinay
• October 29 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician
• Yokai Yagu, Japanese poet. (Born 1702).
• Henry Brooke, novelist, playwright, and poet.