1780 in literature

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The year 1780 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

September/October - In the British general election, 1780, Richard Brinsley Sheridan is elected as a member of Parliament.
Karl von Marinelli becomes head of the Schultz theatre company ("Schultzsche Gesellschaft") of Baden.
Det Dramatiske Selskab in Christiania, an amateur theatre troupe, is formed and gives the first regular theatre performances in Norway.
A legal deposit law entitles the Załuski Library in Warsaw to a copy of every book published in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Hannah Cowley - The Maid of Aragon
George Crabbe - The Candidate
Herbert Croft - The Abbey of Kilkhampton; or, Monumental Records for the Year 1980 (satire)
Susannah Harrison - Songs in the Night
William Hayley - An Essay on History
Anna Seward - Elegy on Captain Cook
Christoph Martin Wieland - Oberon

William Beckford - Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters
Jacob Bryant - An Address to Dr. Priestley
Edmund Burke - Speech on Oeconomical Reformation
William Combe - Letters of the Late Lord Lyttelton (forgeries)
Martin Madan - Thelyphthora (in favor of polygamy)
Johannes von Müller - Geschichten der Schweizer
John Nichols - A Select Collection of Poems
Richard Price - An Essay on the Population of England
Joseph Priestley - Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever
Isaac Reed - A Select Collection of Old Plays (from Robert Dodsley's press)
William Shakespeare - Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Stevens (by Edmund Malone)
Sarah Trimmer - An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature, and Reading the Holy Scriptures (for children)
John Wesley - Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion
Arthur Young - A Tour in Ireland

March 10 - Frances Trollope, novelist (died 1863)
June 1 - Carl von Clausewitz, soldier and military historian and theorist (died 1831)
June 3 - William Hone, satirist (died 1842)
August 14 - George Croly, poet, novelist and historian (died 1860)
December 20 - John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (died 1857)
December 26 - Mary Somerville, science writer (died 1872)
date unknown - Anna Maria Porter, poet and novelist (died 1832)

January 31 - Jonathan Carver, explorer and writer (born 1710)
February 14 - William Blackstone, jurist and legal author (born 1723)
February 17 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (born 1706)
April 29 - Claude Joseph Dorat, "Le Chevalier Dorat", poet and novelist (born 1734)
July 14 - Charles Batteux, philosopher (born 1713)
September 4 - Sir John Fielding, social reformer and half-brother of Henry Fielding (born 1721)
September 8 - Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French novelist (born 1711)
September 23 - Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, salon hostess (born 1697)

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