1760 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1759 in literature, other events of 1760, 1761 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• James Beattie becomes a professor at the University of Aberdeen
• Fanny Burney and her family move to London
• Edward III (play) attributed to William Shakespeare by Edward Capell

New Books

• The Actor (poem) - Robert Lloyd
• Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland - translated by James Macpherson
• Volume two of the sermons of John Balguy (posthumous)
• The Life and Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves - Tobias Smollett

Births

• March 10 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist & poet (d. 1828)
• May 10 - Johann Peter Hebel
• October 25 - Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian

Deaths

• March 28 - Margaret Woffington, noted actress, subject of Charles Reade's novel, Peg Woffington