1756 in literature

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This is a list of literature-related events in 1756.

Events

January - Tobias Smollett becomes the first editor of the The Critical Review.
April–May - Beginning of the Seven Years' War in Europe.
June 20 - The Black Hole of Calcutta incident inspires renewed British efforts in India.
Gilbert White becomes curate of Selborne, Hampshire.
Frances Abington joins the Drury Lane Theatre company.

Anonymous - The Life and Memoirs of Mr. Ephraim Tristram Bates
Thomas Amory - Life of John Buncle
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont - "La Belle et la Bête" ("Beauty and the Beast", abridged version, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves)
Charlotte Lennox - The Memoirs of the Countess of Berci
Samuel Richardson (anonymously) - The Paths of Virtue Delineated, children's versions of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison

Isaac Bickerstaffe - Leucothoe
Richard Owen Cambridge - An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room (parody of Pope's Eloisa to Abelard)
Thomas Cole - The Arbour
William Kenrick - Epistles to Lorenzo
William Mason - Odes
Christopher Pitt - Poems
Christopher Smart
- Hymn to the Supreme Being
- The Works of Horace

Corporate authorship - The Literary Magazine (periodical to 1758)
Thomas Birch - The History of the Royal Society of London vol. i
William Blackstone - An Analysis of the Laws of England
Edmund Burke - A Vindication of Natural Society
Alban Butler - The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints (frequently abridged and reprinted)
Theophilus Cibber - Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects
Daniel Fenning - The Universal Spelling Book, or, A New and Easy Guide to the English Language
Johann Matthias Gesner - Primæ lineæ isagoges in eruditionem universalem
James Grieve - translation of A. Cornelius Celsus of Medicine
Eliza Haywood
- as "Mira" - The Wife
- posthumously - The Husband: in Answer to The Wife
David Hume - The History of Great Britain vol. ii
Leopold Mozart - Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule
Tobias Smollett
- A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages
- (et al.) The Critical Review (periodical to 1790)
Joseph Warton - An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope
John Wesley - An Address to the Clergy
José Francisco de Isla - Triunfo del amor y de la lealtad o Día Grande de Navarra

March 3 – William Godwin, English writer (died 1836)
April – William Gifford, English satirist (died 1826)
June 13 – Edmund Lodge, English biographer and writer on heraldry (died 1839)
July 13 – Thomas Rowlandson, English caricaturist (died 1827)
July 25 (probable year) – Elizabeth Hamilton, Irish-born Scottish essayist, poet and novelist (died 1816)
November 2 – Pierre Laromiguière, French philosopher (died 1837)
November 18 – Thomas Burgess, English philosopher and bishop (died 1837)

February 25 – Eliza Haywood, English writer and actress (born 1693)
March 26 – Gilbert West, English poet (born 1703)
March 30 to April 2 – Stephen Duck, English poet (suicide, born c. 1705)
December 29 – Thomas Cooke, English translator, dramatist and critic (born 1703)
Unknown date – Benjamin Elbel, German theologian (born 1690)