1776 in literature

See also: 1775 in literature, other events of 1776, 1777 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Fragment on Government - Jeremy Bentham
• The Runaway - Hannah Cowley
• Volume I of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
• A General History of the Science and Practice of Music - John Hawkin
• Edward Allwill's Briefsammlung - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
• Common Sense - Thomas Paine
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

Births

• January 24 - E T A Hoffman
• February 12 - Richard Mant
• November 20 - William Blackwood

Deaths

• May 23 - Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse, "Mademoiselle de Lespinasse"

Awards