The following literary events and publications occurred in the year 1763.
Events
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 15 â François-Joseph Talma, French actor (died 1826)
- January 29 â Johann Gottfried Seume, German travel writer (died 1810)
- March 9 â William Cobbett, English political and economic writer (died 1835)
- March 16 â Mary Berry, English dramatist and correspondent (died 1852)
- March 21 â Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter), German novelist (died 1825)
- May 9 â János Batsányi, Hungarian poet and anti-Habsburg activist (died 1845)
- June 15 â Kobayashi Issa, Japanese haiku poet (died 1828)
- July 30 â Samuel Rogers, English poet (died 1855)
- September 2 â Caroline Schelling (Caroline Michaelis), German literary critic (died 1809)
- October 10 â Xavier de Maistre, French soldier and writer (died 1852)
- December 6 â Mary Anne Burges, Scottish religious allegorist (died 1813)
- Unknown dates
- Huang Peilie, Chinese bibliophile (died 1825)
- Shen Fu, Chinese chronicler (died c. 1825)
Deaths
References