title: 1763 in literature
text: # 1763 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1763.
  
  ## Events
  
  * January – Christopher Smart's asylum confinement ends at Mr Potter's asylum in London. (He was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in May 1757 and may have been confined before that; he was later moved to Potter's.) While confined, Smart has written A Song to David, published this year, and Jubilate Agno, not published until 1939.
  * April 30 – A warrant is issued in Britain for the arrest of John Wilkes for seditious writings in The North Briton
  * May 16 – James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in Covent Garden, London.
  * October 11 – The marriage of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale takes place. Both later become close friends and companions of Dr Samuel Johnson.
  * December 6 – John Wilkes brings a court action for trespass against Robert Wood, after the Lord Chief Justice rules that parliamentary privilege protects Wilkes from arrest for libel.
  * unknown dates
     * Fedor Emin's Nepostoyannaya fortuna, the first Russian novel, is published.
     * The atheist English printer John Baskerville produces an edition of The Holy Bible for Cambridge University Press in his Baskerville typeface.
  * probable – Chinese Qing dynasty scholar Sun Zhu compiles Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology of poems from the Chinese Tang dynasty (618–907).
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Frances Brooke – The History of Lady Julia Mandeville
  * James Grieve – English translation of Stepan Krasheninnikov's History of Kamtschatka
  * Susannah Minifie and Margaret Minifie – The Histories of Lady Frances S—— and Lady Caroline S——
  * John Langhorne – The Letters that Passed Between Theodosius and Constantia
  * Cao Xueqin – The Chronicles of the Stone
  
  ### Drama
  
  * Isaac Bickerstaffe – Love in a Village (opera)
  * George Colman the Elder – The Deuce is in Him
  * Nicolás Fernandez de Moratín – Lucrecia
  * Samuel Foote
     * The Mayor of Garrett
     * The Trial of Samuel Foote, Esq. for a Libel on Peter Paragraph
  * Mary Latter – The Siege of Jerusalem
  * David Mallet – Elvira
  * Arthur Murphy – The Citizen
  * Frances Sheridan – The Discovery
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Richard Bentley the Younger – Patriotism
  * Charles Churchill
     * The Author
     * The Conference
     * An Epistle to William Hogarth
     * The Prophecy of Famine
     * Poems
  * John Collier – Tim Bobbin's Toy-shop
  * George Keate – The Alps
  * Robert Lloyd – The Death of Adam
  * James Macpherson (as Ossian) – Temora
  * William Mason – Elegies
  * James Merrick – Poems
  * Giuseppe Parini – Il giorno
  * Christopher Smart – A Song to David
  
  ### Non-fiction
  
  * Almanach de Gotha (first issue)
  * John Ash – Grammatical Institutes
  * Thomas Bayes (died 1761) – An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances
  * Hugh Blair – A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian
  * John Brown – A Dissertation on Poetry and Music
  * Philip Doddridge – A Course of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity
  * Immanuel Kant – The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God
  * Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz – History of Louisiana; an English translation, in two volumes, of Histoire de la Louisiane, published in 1758
  * Catharine Macaulay – The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
  * Mary Wortley Montagu – Letters
  * Robert Orme – A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from the Year 1745
  * William Williams Pantycelyn – Atteb Philo-Evangelius i Martha Philopur (Philo-Evangelius's Reply to Martha Philopur)
  * Emanuel Swedenborg – Doctrine of Holy Scripture
  * Henry Venn – The Complete Duty of Man
  * Voltaire – Traité sur la tolérance
  * William Warburton – The Doctrine of Grace
  * John Wesley – A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 15 – François-Joseph Talma, French actor (died 1826)
  * January 29 – Johann Gottfried Seume, German travel writer (died 1810)
  * March 9 – William Cobbett, English political and economic writer (died 1835)
  * March 16 – Mary Berry, English dramatist and correspondent (died 1852)
  * March 21 – Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter), German novelist (died 1825)
  * May 9 – János Batsányi, Hungarian poet and anti-Habsburg activist (died 1845)
  * June 15 – Kobayashi Issa, Japanese haiku poet (died 1828)
  * July 30 – Samuel Rogers, English poet (died 1855)
  * September 2 – Caroline Schelling (Caroline Michaelis), German literary critic (died 1809)
  * October 10 – Xavier de Maistre, French soldier and writer (died 1852)
  * December 6 – Mary Anne Burges, Scottish religious allegorist (died 1813)
  * Unknown dates
     * Huang Peilie, Chinese bibliophile (died 1825)
     * Shen Fu, Chinese chronicler (died c. 1825)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 11 – Caspar Abel, German poet and theologian (born 1676)
  * February 11 – William Shenstone, English poet (born 1714)
  * February 12 – Pierre de Marivaux, French novelist and dramatist (born 1688)
  * May 3 – George Psalmanazar, French-born impostor and English writer (born c. 1679)
  * June 29 – Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish poet and salonnière (born 1718)
  * September 26 – John Byrom, English poet (born 1692)
  * December 23 – Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost), French author (born 1697)
  * Probable year of death – Cao Xueqin, Chinese novelist (born c. 1715)
  