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See also: 1768 in literature, other events of 1769, 1770 in literature, list of years in literature. This page gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order with notable publications listed with their respective years The table of years in literature is a tabular display of all years in Literature for overview and quick navigation to any year See also 1758 in literature, other events of 1759, 1760 in literature, List of years in literature. The year 1760 in literature involved some significant events and new books See also 1760 in literature, other events of 1761, 1762 in literature, List of years in literature. See also 1761 in literature, other events of 1762, 1763 in literature, List of years in literature. See also 1762 in literature, other events of 1763, 1764 in literature, List of years in literature. See also 1763 in literature, other events of 1764, 1765 in literature, List of years in literature. Events Beginning of Sturm und Drang movement in German literature. See also 1765 in literature, other events of 1766, 1767 in literature, List of years in literature. See also 1766 in literature, other events of 1767, 1768 in literature, List of years in literature. See also 1767 in literature, other events of 1768, 1769 in literature, List of years in literature. The year 1770 in literature involved some significant events and new books See also 1770 in literature, other events of 1771, 1772 in literature, List of years in literature. See also 1771 in literature, other events of 1772, 1773 in literature, List of years in literature. See also 1772 in literature, other events of 1773, 1774 in literature, List of years in literature. Events The First Continental Congress in America Joseph Priestley refines Oxygen. Events October 19 - Samuel Johnson, Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, visiting Paris dine with King Louis XVI of France Events The United States issues its Declaration of Independence on July 4. Events Fanny Burney is introduced to Samuel Johnson by her father Robert Lowth becomes Bishop of London See also 1777 in literature, other events of 1778, 1779 in literature, List of years in literature. Events Spain wages war against the United Kingdom The beginning of the Epsom Derby. This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Year 1766 ( MDCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1767 ( MDCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1768 ( MDCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1769 ( MDCCLXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1770 ( MDCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Friday Year 1771 ( MDCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1772 ( MDCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them Events and trends The Great Awakening - A Protestant religious movement active in the British colonies of North America Events and trends Frederick II ascends the throne of Prussia, upon the death of his father " Frederick William I of Prussia " Events and Trends Scientific Navigation is developed The Seven Years' War ( 1756 - 1763) fought between two rival alliances Events and Trends King George III ascends the British throne in 1760. Events and trends For more events see 18th century United States Declaration of Independence ratified by the Continental Congress Events and trends 1783 First manned Hot air balloon invented in France. Events and trends French Revolution ( 1789 - 1799) It is considered to have effectively ended on November 9, 1799 when See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them The pages listed below contain information about trends and events in particular centuries and millennia. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 17th Century was that Century which lasted from 1601 - 1700 in the Gregorian calendar The 18th century lasted from 1701 to 1800 in the Gregorian calendar, in accordance with the Anno Domini / Common Era numbering system The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar The pages listed below contain information about trends and events in particular centuries and millennia. Events Awards Works Christopher Hewetson - Busts of Charles Townley Explorations Excavations Formal excavations continue at Pompeii. The year 1769 in architecture involved some significant events Events Luigi Boccherini goes to Madrid as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis The year 1769 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below See also 1767 in literature, other events of 1768, 1769 in literature, List of years in literature. Year 1769 ( MDCCLXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a The year 1770 in literature involved some significant events and new books This page gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order with notable publications listed with their respective years
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Events
- John Wilkes is expelled from Parliament. John Wilkes ( 17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797) was an English radical, journalist and politician
- Josiah Wedgwood opens his Etruria kiln. Josiah Wedgwood ( July 12, 1730 - January 3, 1795, born Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent) was an English potter credited
- Thomas Chatterton sends "Rowley"'s History of England to Horace Walpole. Thomas Chatterton ( November 20 1752 – August 24 1770) was an English poet and forger Horace Walpole 4th Earl of Orford ( 24 September, 1717 &ndash 2 March, 1797) more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a politician
- David Garrick holds his "Shakespeare Jubilee" at Stratford-upon-Avon. David Garrick (born 19 February 1717 in Hereford &ndash 20 January 1779) was an English Actor, Playwright, Stratford-upon-Avon (ˌstrætfɚd əpɒn ˈɛɪvən is a Market town and Civil parish in south Warwickshire, England.
New books
Nonfiction
- William Blackstone - A Reply to Dr. Sir William Blackstone (originally pronounced Blexstun ( 10 July 1723 &ndash 14 February 1780) was an English Jurist and Priestley
- William Buchan - Domestic Medicine
- Edmund Burke - Observations on a Late State of the Nation
- Charles Burney - An Essay Towards a History of the Principal Comets that have Appeared Since 1742
- Adam Ferguson - Institutes of Moral Philosophy
- "Junius" (unknown, but possibly Philip Francis) - The Political Contest i - ii
- - The Letters from Junius to the D*** of G***** (to the Duke of Grafton)
- Oliver Goldsmith - The Roman History (textbook)
- James Granger - Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution
- Elizabeth Montagu - An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear
- Joshua Reynolds - A Discourse
- William Robertson - The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V
- Laurence Sterne - A political Romance
- - Sermons by the Late Rev. William Buchan (1729-1805 was a Scottish Physician, born at Ancrum. Edmund Burke ( 12 January, 1729 9 July, 1797) was an Irish statesman author orator Political theorist, and Charles Burney ( 7 April 1726 &ndash 12 April 1814) was an English music historian and father of author Frances Adam Ferguson, also known as Ferguson of Raith (20 June 1723 ( O Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the Public Advertiser, from January 21 1769 to January Philip Francis may refer to Philip Francis (English politician (1740-1818 English politician Philip Francis (golfer, American golfer The title of Duke of Grafton was created in 1675 by Charles II of England for his 2nd illegitimate son by the Duchess of Cleveland, Henry FitzRoy. Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 or 1728 &ndash 4 April 1774 was an Anglo-Irish writer poet and Physician known for his Novel The Vicar James Granger (1723 - 1776 biographer was at Oxford and entering the Church, became Vicar of Shiplake, Oxon. Elizabeth Montagu ( October 2, 1718 - August 25, 1800) was a British social reformer patron of the arts hostess literary critic Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 &ndash 23 February 1792 was the most important and influential of 18th century English painters Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO ( 29 January 1860 – Laurence Sterne ( November 24, 1713 &ndash March 18, 1768) was an Irish -born English Novelist and an Anglican Mr. Sterne
Fiction
- Elizabeth Bonhôte - Hortensia, or, The Distressed Wife
- Frances Brooke - The History of Emily Montague (the first novel written in Canada)
- Elizabeth Griffith and Richard Griffith - The Delicate Distress
- - Two Novels: in Letters
- Charles Jenner - The Placid Man
- Margaret Minifie with Susannah Minifie Gunning - The Hermit
- Susannah Minifie - The Cottage
- Tobias Smollett - The History and Adventures of an Atom
- William Tooke - The Loves of Othniel and Achsah
Poetry
- Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne - The Siege of Jerusalem
- Basílio da Gama - O Uruguai
- Thomas Gray - Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge
- John Ogilvie - Paradise
- Clara Reeve - Poems
New drama
- George Colman the Elder - The Oxonian in Town
- Richard Cumberland - The Brothers
- Alexander Dow - Zingis
- Elizabeth Griffith - The School for Rakes
- John Home - The Fatal Discovery
- Charlotte Lennox - The Sister
Births
- February 9 - Susette Gontard, lover of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin
- May 21 - John Hookham Frere, diplomat and author
- November 12 - Amelia Opie
- Napoleon Bonapart
- Alexander von Humboldt, educator. Elizabeth Bonhôte, née Mapes (1744-1818 was an English novelist and essayist. Frances Moore Brooke ( 12 January, 1724 &ndash 23 January 1789) was an English Novelist, Essayist, Playwright Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Elizabeth Griffith, née Griffith ( c 1727 &ndash 1793 was an eighteenth-century Irish Dramatist, Fiction writer Essayist Tobias George Smollett (bapt 19 March, 1721 &ndash 17 September, 1771) was a Scottish author best known for his Picaresque The History and Adventures of an Atom, by Tobias Smollett (1769 Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1749 &ndash 1800 also known as "The Unhappy Countess" was the daughter of George Bowes and wife Mary The Siege of Jerusalem (1771 is a poetical drama full of high drama and unrequited love written by Mary Bowes Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, an ancestor Basílio da Gama ( São João del-Rei, April 10, 1740 &mdash Lisbon, July 31, 1795) was a Brazilian author with a Portuguese "O Uraguai" ( 1769) is an Epic poem by the Brazilian writer Basílio da Gama. Thomas Gray ( December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771) was an English Poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge John Ogilvie may refer to John Ogilvie (Canada John Ogilvie (lexicographer Saint John Ogilvie Clara Reeve (1729 - 1807 novelist born in Ipswich, England, was the author of several novels of which only one is remembered-- The Champion of Virtue George Colman (April 1732 - 14 August 1794) was an English Dramatist and Essayist, usually called " the Elder Richard Cumberland ( February 19, 1732 — May 7, 1811) was an English Dramatist and civil servant Elizabeth Griffith, née Griffith ( c 1727 &ndash 1793 was an eighteenth-century Irish Dramatist, Fiction writer Essayist John Home ( 22 September 1722 &ndash 5 September 1808) was a Scottish Poet and Dramatist. Charlotte Ramsay Lennox ( c 1730 - January 4, 1804) was a British Author and Poet of the 18th century Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (ˈjoːhan ˈkrɪstiaːn ˈfriːdrɪç 'hœldərliːn in German March 20, 1770 &ndash June 6, 1843 Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (ˈjoːhan ˈkrɪstiaːn ˈfriːdrɪç 'hœldərliːn in German March 20, 1770 &ndash June 6, 1843 Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. John Hookham Frere ( 21 May 1769 - 7 January, 1846) was an English Diplomat and Author. Events 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days Amelia Opie, née Alderson ( 12 November 1769 - 2 December 1853) was an English author Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe. (September 14 1769 &ndash May 6 1859 was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister philosopher and linguist
Deaths
- February 26 - William Duncombe, author
- Edward Kimber, journal editor and novelist
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