See also: 1761 in literature, other events of 1762, 1763 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• Académie française produces new edition of its dictionary of the French language.

New Books

• Anecdotes of Painting in England, volume 1 - Horace Walpole
• Éloge de Richardson - Denis Diderot
• Émile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Le Contrat Social (The Social Contract), also by Rousseau
• Ollivier - Jacques Cazotte
• Slavonic-Bulgarian History - Paisii Hilendarski

Births

• January 11 - Andrew Cherry
• September 11 - Joanna Baillie
• September 24 - William Lisle Bowles

Deaths

• August 21 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu