1796 In Literature

Events

New books

• The Watchman (periodical) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A Letter to a Noble Lord - Edmund Burke
• Camilla - Fanny Burney
• Hermsprong or Man as He is Not - Robert Bage
• Memoirs of My Life and Writings - Edward Gibbon

New drama

• Egmont - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Births

• January 4 - Henry George Bohn, publisher
• September 19 - Hartley Coleridge
• July 15 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author

Deaths

• February 17 - James Macpherson, poet
• May 6 - Adolph von Knigge, writer on etiquette
• July 21 - Robert Burns
• October 7 - Thomas Reid, philosopher

Awards

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