Events January 1 - First publication of the Daily Universal Register (later The Times of London) Thomas Warton becomes Poet Laureate New Books * Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson - James Boswell The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy - William Paley The Valour of the Magyars - János Bacsanyi Births January 4 - Jakob Grimm May 18 - John Wilson August 15 - Thomas de Quincey Deaths Awards
Births January 4 - Jakob Grimm May 18 - John Wilson August 15 - Thomas de Quincey Deaths Awards