1785 in literature

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This is a list of literature-related events in 1785.

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Events

January 1
- First publication of the Daily Universal Register (later The Times) in London.
- Parisian theatre company Théâtre des Variétés-Amusantes moves into a temporary new theatre in the gardens of the Palais-Royal.
February 2 - Sarah Siddons makes her London debut in her most famous rôle, Lady Macbeth, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.^[1]
February - Mary Bowes escapes from her husband, Andrew Robinson Stoney, and begins divorce proceedings.
April 14 - Death of English poet William Whitehead in London. Thomas Warton succeeds him as Poet Laureate of Great Britain after the refusal of William Mason.
May 22 - Robert Burns' first child, Elizabeth ("Dear-bought Bess"), is born to his mother's servant, Elizabeth Paton.^[2]
June 23 - The Litvak rabbi and writer Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg dies at Metz in France after a book-case topples on him, according to tradition.^[3]
November 28 - The Marquis de Sade completes writing The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 journées de Sodome) while imprisoned in the Bastille; it will not be published until 1904.
Giacomo Casanova is appointed librarian to Count Joseph Karl von Waldstein at the Duchcov Chateau in Bohemia.

January 4 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist, jurist and mythologist (died 1863)
January 31 - Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová, Czech cookery writer (died 1845)
March 7 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist (died 1873)
March 21 - Henry Kirke White, poet (died 1806)
April 4 - Bettina von Arnim, German novelist (died 1859)
April 7 - Lorenzo Hammarsköld, Swedish poet and author (died 1827)
May 3 - Vicente López y Planes, Argentine politician and writer (died 1856)
May 18 - John Wilson, "Christopher North" of Blackwood's Magazine (died 1854)
August 15 - Thomas de Quincey, essayist (died 1859)
October 18 - Thomas Love Peacock, novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company (died 1866)

↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Siddons, Sarah". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
↑ "Paton, Elizabeth". The Burns Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
↑ Eleff, Zef (Winter 2012). "The Wages of Criticism". Jewish Review of Books 8. Retrieved 2013-03-06.

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