1776 In Literature

Events

New books

• Fragment on Government - Jeremy Bentham
• The Runaway - Hannah Cowley
• Volume I of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
• A General History of the Science and Practice of Music - John Hawkin
• Edward Allwill's Briefsammlung - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
• Common Sense - Thomas Paine
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

New drama

• Stella - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Sturm und Drang - Friedrich von Klinger

Births

• January 24 - E T A Hoffman
• February 12 - Richard Mant
• November 20 - William Blackwood

Deaths

• April 29 - Edward Wortley Montagu, travel writer
• May 23 - Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse, "Mademoiselle de Lespinasse"

Awards

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