Events

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge gives a series of lectures on politics and religion.
• Charles Lamb spends six weeks in a mental asylum.
• William Henry Ireland first displays his Shakespearean forgeries to the public. They will inspire a major controversy when published on 24 December (dated 1796).

New books

• Jane Austen - Lady Susan (unpublished)
• Richard Cumberland - Henry
• William Gifford - The Maeviad
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre)
• Marquis de Sade - Aline and Valcour
• Thomas Spence - Spensonia

New drama

• Richard Cumberland - First Love
• Marquis de Sade - Philosophy in the Bedroom (La Philosophie Dans le Boudoir)

New poetry

• William Blake - The Book of Ahania

Births

• May 26 - Thomas Noon Talfourd
• June 13 - Thomas Arnold
• September 7 - John William Polidori
• October 31 - John Keats
• December 4 - Thomas Carlyle

Deaths

• February 11 - Carl Michael Bellman, poet
• February 22 - Alexander Gerard
• May 19 - James Boswell
• October 8 - Andrew Kippis, biographer
• October 10 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, theologian and historian

Awards

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