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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

[edit] Events

• Gottlieb Jakob Planck becomes professor of theology at Göttingen

[edit] New books

• Sketches of History - William Godwin
• The Follies of the Day - Thomas Holcroft's translation of Beaumarchais' Le Mariage de Figaro
• Sur l'universalité de la langue française - Antoine de Rivarol

[edit] Births

• January 31 - Bernard Barton, poet
• May 18 - William Tennant, Scottish poet
• date unknown - Antoine Ó Raifteiri, "last of the wandering bards"

[edit] Deaths

• December 13 - Samuel Johnson

[edit] Awards