1785 In Literature

Events

• January 1 - First publication of the Daily Universal Register (later The Times)
• Thomas Warton becomes Poet Laureate

New books

• Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson - James Boswell
• The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy - William Paley
• The Valour of the Magyars - Jnos Bacsanyi
• Les 120 journes de Sodome - Marquis de Sade
• Anton Reiser (to 1790) - Karl Philipp Moritz

Births

• January 4 - Jakob Grimm
• March 7 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist
• March 21 - Henry Kirke White, poet
• May 18 - John Wilson ("Christopher North" of Blackwood's Magazine)
• August 15 - Thomas de Quincey
• October 18 - Thomas Love Peacock

Deaths

• December 29 - Johan Herman Wessel

Awards

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