1765 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1765.

Events

• January 10 – Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.
• August 12 – I'tisam-ud-Din writes the Treaty of Allahabad between the Mughal Empire and the British East India Company
• October 10 – Samuel Johnson's edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published in London after ten years in the making.
• unknown date – Denis Diderot completes the Encyclopédie.
• Approximate year – Beginning of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.

New books

Fiction

• Henry Brooke – The Fool of Quality (volume one; the fifth and last appeared in 1770)
• Madame Riccoboni – L'Histoire d'Ernestine
• Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (vol vii–viii)
• Anonymous – The Fruit-Shop

Children

• Anonymous – The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (attributed to Oliver Goldsmith)

Drama

• Isaac Bickerstaffe – operas
• Daphne and Amintor
• The Maid of the Mill
• Dorothea Biehl – Den listige Optrækkerske
• George Colman the Elder – The Comedies of Terence
• Ramón de la Cruz – El Prado por la noche
• Charles Dibdin – The Shepherd's Artifice
• Samuel Foote – The Commissary
• Carlo Gozzi – L'augellino bel verde
• Elizabeth Griffith – The Platonic Wife
• Michel-Jean Sedaine – Philosophe sans le savoir
• William Shirley – Electra

Poetry

• James Beattie
• The Judgment of Paris
• Verses Occasioned by the Death of Charles Churchill
• William Collins – Works
• Edward Jerningham – An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey
• James Macpherson – The Works of Ossian
• Thomas Percy – Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
• Christopher Smart – A Translation of the Psalms of David
• Percival Stockdale – Churchill Defended
• Nicolás Fernandez de Moratín – La Diana o Arte de la caza

Non-fiction

• William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England (publication begins)
• John Bunyan (died 1688) – Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan
• Anders Chydenius – The National Gain (')
• Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro – Opera omnia
• Henry Fuseli – Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks (translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann)
• Oliver Goldsmith – Essays
• William Kenrick – A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare
• Filip Lastrić
• Epitome vetustatum Bosnensis provinciae
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• Friedrich Christoph Oetinger – Swedenborg und anderer Irrdische und himmlische Philosophie
• Joseph Priestley – Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life
• George Alexander Stevens – The Celebrated Lecture on Heads
• Tobias Smollett – Continuation of the History of England (a supplement to Hume's History of England; final volume)
• Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes – Tratado de la regalía de amortización

Births

• January 11 – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (died 1825)
• March 27 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher (died 1841)
• April 22 – James Grahame, Scottish poet (died 1811)
• September 14 – Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, German bookseller (died 1837)
• September 15 – Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet (died 1805)
• October 24 – James Mackintosh, Scottish historian (died 1832)
• November 30 – Johann Friedrich Abegg, German theologian (died 1840)
• unknown date – Jippensha Ikku (十返舎 一九 Shigeta Sadakazu), Japanese novelist (died 1831)
• Probable year of birth – Henry Luttrell, English wit (died 1851)

Deaths

• March 3 – William Stukeley, English antiquary (born 1687)
• April 5 – Edward Young, English poet, playwright and literary theorist (born 1683)
• April 11 – Lewis Morris, Welsh poet, antiquary and lexicographer (born 1701)
• April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (born 1711)
• April 23 – Sarah Dixon, English poet (born 1671 or 1672)
• May 1 – Franz Neumayr, German controversialist and theologian (born 1697)
• December 31 – Samuel Madden, Irish social and political writer (born 1686)
• Unknown date
• David Mallet, Scottish poet and playwright (born c. 1705)
• James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (born 1736)

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