1796 in literature
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See also: 1795 in literature, other events of 1796, 1797 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- The Watchman (periodical) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A Letter to a Noble Lord - Edmund Burke
- Camilla - Fanny Burney
- Hermsprong or Man as He is Not - Robert Bage
- Memoirs of My Life and Writings - Edward Gibbon
New drama
- Egmont - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Births
- January 4 - Henry George Bohn, publisher
- September 19 - Hartley Coleridge
- July 15 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author
Deaths
- February 17 - James Macpherson, poet
- May 6 - Adolph von Knigge, writer on etiquette
- July 21 - Robert Burns
- October 7 - Thomas Reid, philosopher