1796 in literature - Definition

See also: 1795 in literature, other events of 1796, 1797 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• The Watchman (periodical) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A Letter to a Noble Lord - Edmund Burke
• Camilla - Fanny Burney
• Hermsprong or Man as He is Not - Robert Bage
• Memoirs of My Life and Writings - Edward Gibbon

Births

• January 4 - Henry George Bohn, publisher
• September 19 - Hartley Coleridge
• July 15 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author

Deaths

• February 17 - James Macpherson, poet
• May 6 - Adolph von Knigge, writer on etiquette
• July 21 - Robert Burns
• October 7 - Thomas Reid, philosopher

Awards