1763 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Marriage of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, later close friends and companions of Dr Samuel Johnson.
• May 16 : James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in London

• The Chronicles of the Stone - Cao Xueqin
• The Discovery (play) - Frances Sheridan

• March 9 : William Cobbett
• July 30 : Samuel Rogers

• September 26 : John Byrom
• December 23 : Antoine François Prévost, French author, better known as the Abbé Prévost