1781 in literature
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See also: 1780 in literature, other events of 1781, 1782 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Friedrich Schiller arrested after the first performance of his play, The Robbers
New books
- Volumes II and III of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
- Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
- The British Prison-Ship (poetry) - Philip Freneau
- Julia de Roubignei by Henry Mackenzie
- Mount Henneth by Robert Bage
Births
Deaths
- February 15 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- April 4 - Henry Thrale, friend of Samuel Johnson and husband of Hester Thrale