1776 in literature

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David Hume, 1711 - 1776. Historian and philosopher

Overview of the events of 1776 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1776.

Events

January 8 – The English actor John Philip Kemble makes his stage début, as Theodosius in Nathaniel Lee's eponymous tragedy, at Wolverhampton, England, with the Crump and Chamberlain company.^[1]
August 7 – David Hume, weeks before his death, adds a codicil to his will, giving instructions for the publication of the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion , on which he has been working since 1750.^[2]
unknown dates – The Wenyuan Chamber is built in China as an imperial library in the Forbidden City of Beijing.

Elizabeth Griffith – The Story of Lady Juliana Harley
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi – Edward Allwill's Briefsammlung
Ignacy Krasicki – The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki) (first novel in Polish)
Samuel Jackson Pratt (as Courtney Melmoth) – The Pupil of Pleasure, or, The New System (Lord Chesterfield's) Illustrated

Main article: 1776 in poetry

John Adams – Thoughts on Government
James Beattie – Essays
Jeremy Bentham – Fragment on Government
Charles Burney – A General History of Music (completed 1789)
George Campbell – The Philosophy of Rhetoric
David Dalrymple – Annals of Scotland
Edward Gibbon – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , volume 1
Oliver Goldsmith – A Survey of Experimental Philosophy
Sir John Hawkins – A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
David Herd – Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs
Soame Jenyns – A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion
Thomas Paine
- Common Sense
- The American Crisis
Richard Price – Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty
Adam Smith – An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

January – Frances Burney, English dramatist (died 1828)
January 17 – Jane Porter, Scottish novelist and dramatist (died 1850)
January 24 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German fantasy and horror writer (died 1822)
February 12 – Richard Mant, English writer and cleric (died 1848)
March 9 – Archibald Bell, Scottish lawyer and miscellanist (died 1854)
April 13 – Wilhelm von Schütz, German author and playwright (died 1847)
July 1 – Sophie Gay, French author (died 1852)
September 21 – John Fitchett, English epic poet (died 1838)
September 27 – Maria Versfelt, Dutch actress and memoirist (died 1845)
November 16 – Mary Matilda Betham, English diarist, scholar and poet (died 1852)
November 20 – William Blackwood, Scottish publisher (died 1834)