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Events
- Spain wages war against the United Kingdom.
- The beginning of the Epsom Derby.
- The victory of John Paul Jones in the American Revolutionary War.
- William Blake enrolls at the Royal Academy
- Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang Goethe is premiered on April 6.
New books
- Richard Graves - Columella
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - Woldemar
- Ignacy Krasicki - Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieści)
- Nocturnal Revels
- Samuel Jackson Pratt as "Courtney Melmoth"
- Shenstone-Green
- The Tutor of Truth
- The Sorrows of Werter (anonymous translation of the work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
New drama
- Fanny Burney - The Witlings
- Hannah Cowley
- Albina, Countess Raimond
- Who's the Dupe
- Richard Cumberland - Calypso
- Hugh Downman - Lucius Junius Brutus
- Robert Jephson - The Law of Lombardy
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Nathan der Weise
Poetry
- William Cowper and John Newton - Olney Hymns
- Robert Furgusson - Poems
- William Hayley - Epistle to Admiral Keppel
- Ann Murry - Poems
Non-fiction
- Anna Barbauld - Lessons for Children
- James Burnett - Antient Metaphysics
- Edward Capell - Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare
- George Chalmers - Political Annals of the Present United Colonies
- Edward Gibbon - A Vindication of Some Passages in the Hisotry of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- David Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Samuel Johnson - Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
- Vicessimus Knox - Essays
- John Moore - A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany
- Horace Walpole - A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton
Births
- January 18 - Peter Roget
- May 28 - Thomas Moore
- August 1 - Francis Scott Key
- December 22 - Thomas Gaisford
Deaths
