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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1765.

Events

  • January 10 – Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.
  • August 12 – I'tisam-ud-Din writes the Treaty of Allahabad between the Mughal Empire and the British East India Company
  • October 10 – Samuel Johnson's edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published in London after ten years in the making.
  • unknown date – Denis Diderot completes the Encyclopédie.
  • Approximate year – Beginning of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.

New books

Fiction

  • Henry Brooke – The Fool of Quality (volume one; the fifth and last appeared in 1770)
  • Madame Riccoboni – L'Histoire d'Ernestine
  • Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (vol vii–viii)
  • Anonymous – The Fruit-Shop

Children

  • Anonymous – The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (attributed to Oliver Goldsmith)

Drama

  • Isaac Bickerstaffe – operas
  • Daphne and Amintor
  • The Maid of the Mill
  • Dorothea Biehl – Den listige Optrækkerske
  • George Colman the Elder – The Comedies of Terence
  • Ramón de la Cruz – El Prado por la noche
  • Charles Dibdin – The Shepherd's Artifice
  • Samuel Foote – The Commissary
  • Carlo Gozzi – L'augellino bel verde
  • Elizabeth Griffith – The Platonic Wife
  • Michel-Jean Sedaine – Philosophe sans le savoir
  • William Shirley – Electra

Poetry

  • James Beattie
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • Verses Occasioned by the Death of Charles Churchill
  • William Collins – Works
  • Edward Jerningham – An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey
  • James Macpherson – The Works of Ossian
  • Thomas Percy – Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
  • Christopher Smart – A Translation of the Psalms of David
  • Percival Stockdale – Churchill Defended
  • Nicolás Fernandez de Moratín – La Diana o Arte de la caza

Non-fiction

  • William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England (publication begins)
  • John Bunyan (died 1688) – Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan
  • Anders Chydenius – The National Gain (')
  • Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro – Opera omnia
  • Henry Fuseli – Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks (translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann)
  • Oliver Goldsmith – Essays
  • William Kenrick – A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare
  • Filip Lastrić
  • Epitome vetustatum Bosnensis provinciae
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  • Friedrich Christoph Oetinger – Swedenborg und anderer Irrdische und himmlische Philosophie
  • Joseph Priestley – Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life
  • George Alexander Stevens – The Celebrated Lecture on Heads
  • Tobias Smollett – Continuation of the History of England (a supplement to Hume's History of England; final volume)
  • Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes – Tratado de la regalía de amortización

Births

  • January 11 – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (died 1825)
  • March 27 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher (died 1841)
  • April 22 – James Grahame, Scottish poet (died 1811)
  • September 14 – Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, German bookseller (died 1837)
  • September 15 – Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet (died 1805)
  • October 24 – James Mackintosh, Scottish historian (died 1832)
  • November 30 – Johann Friedrich Abegg, German theologian (died 1840)
  • unknown date – Jippensha Ikku (十返舎 一九 Shigeta Sadakazu), Japanese novelist (died 1831)
  • Probable year of birth – Henry Luttrell, English wit (died 1851)

Deaths

  • March 3 – William Stukeley, English antiquary (born 1687)
  • April 5 – Edward Young, English poet, playwright and literary theorist (born 1683)
  • April 11 – Lewis Morris, Welsh poet, antiquary and lexicographer (born 1701)
  • April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (born 1711)
  • April 23 – Sarah Dixon, English poet (born 1671 or 1672)
  • May 1 – Franz Neumayr, German controversialist and theologian (born 1697)
  • December 31 – Samuel Madden, Irish social and political writer (born 1686)
  • Unknown date
  • David Mallet, Scottish poet and playwright (born c. 1705)
  • James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (born 1736)

References