1766 in literature
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See also: 1765 in literature, other events of 1766, 1767 in literature, list of years in literature.
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| … 1756 . 1757 . 1758 . 1759 . 1760 . 1761 . 1762 … 1763 1764 1765 -1766- 1767 1768 1769 … 1770 . 1771 . 1772 . 1773 . 1774 . 1775 . 1776 … In poetry: 1763 1764 1765 -1766- 1767 1768 1769 |
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[edit] Events
- Repeal of the Stamp Act.
- The Declaratory Act issued, stirring up American resistance to British rule.
- Fanny Burney's first visit to the house of Samuel Crisp
[edit] New books
- Francis Blackburne - The Confessional (theology of confession)
- Edmund Burke - A Short Account of a Late Short Administration
- Catherine Jemmat - Miscellanies
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Laocoön (dramaturgy)
- Thomas Pennant - The British Zoology
- William Shakespeare - Twenty of the Plays of Shakespeare, George Stevens ed.
- Samuel Sharp - Letters from Italy
- Tobias Smollett - Travels through France and Italy
- Laurence Sterne - The Sermons of Mr Yorick vols. iii-iv
- Thomas Tyrwhitt - Observations and Conjectures Upon Some Passages of Shakespeare
- John Wesley - A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
- Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
[edit] Poetry
- Mark Akenside - An Ode to the Late Thomas Edwards
- Christopher Anstey - The New Bath Guide
- James Beattie - Poems
- John Cunningham - Poems
- John Freeth - The Political Songster
- Oliver Goldsmith - Poems for Young Ladies (edited)
- Charles Jenner - Poems
- Henry James Pye - Beauty
- Christoph Martin Wieland - Agathon
[edit] Fiction
- Anonymous - Genuine Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Maria Brown (erotica)
- Henry Brooke - The Fool of Quality
- Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
- Hugh Kelly - Memoirs of a Magdalen
- Charlotte Lennox - The History of Eliza
- Susannah Minifie - The Picture
- Sarah Scott - The History of Sir George Ellison
[edit] New drama
- George Colman the Elder and David Garrick - The Clandestine Marriage
- Thomas Francklin - The Earl of Warrick
- Elizabeth Griffith - The Double Mistake
- Thomas Hull - The Fairy Favour
[edit] Births
- February 14 - Thomas Malthus (died 1834)
- April 22 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (died 1817)
- May - Isaac D'Israeli (died 1848)
[edit] Deaths
- March 21 - Richard Dawes (born 1708)
- James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender to the throne of England.
