1776 in literature
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Contents |
Events
- The United States issues its Declaration of Independence on July 4.
New books
- Elizabeth Griffith - The Story of Lady Juliana Harley
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - Edward Allwill's Briefsammlung
- Ignacy Krasicki - The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki) (first novel in Polish)
- Samuel Jackson Pratt as "Courtney Melmoth" - The Pupil of Pleasure
New drama
- Hannah Cowley - The Runaway
- Samuel Foote - The Bankrupt
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Stella
- Friedrich Maximilian Klinger - Sturm und Drang
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner - Die Kindermörderin
Poetry
- James Beattie - Poems
- Richard Graves - Euphrosyne
- William Mickle - The Lusiad
- Hannah More - Sir Eldred of the Bower, and The Bleeding Rock
- Jonathan Richardson - Morning Thoughts
- John Scott - Amwell
- Augustus Montague Toplady - Psalms and Hymns
- William Whitehead - Variety
Non-fiction
- John Adams - Thoughts on Government
- James Beattie - Essays
- Jeremy Bentham - Fragment on Government
- Charles Burney - A General History of Music
- George Campbell - The Philosophy of Rhetoric
- David Dalrymple - Annals of Scotland
- Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 1
- Oliver Goldsmith - A Survey of Experimental Philosophy
- Sir John Hawkins - A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
- David Herd - Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs
- Soame Jenyns - A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion
- Thomas Paine
- Common Sense
- The American Crisis
- Richard Price - Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty
- Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Births
Deaths
- April 29 - Edward Wortley Montagu, travel writer
- May 23 - Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse, "Mademoiselle de Lespinasse"
- David Hume
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