# 1765 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1765.

## Events

* January 10 – Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.
* August 12 – I'tisam-ud-Din writes the Treaty of Allahabad between the Mughal Empire and the British East India Company
* October 10 – Samuel Johnson's edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published in London after ten years in the making.
* unknown date – Denis Diderot completes the Encyclopédie.
* Approximate year – Beginning of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.

## New books
### Fiction

* Henry Brooke – The Fool of Quality (volume one; the fifth and last appeared in 1770)
* Madame Riccoboni – L'Histoire d'Ernestine
* Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (vol vii–viii)
* Anonymous – The Fruit-Shop

### Children

* Anonymous – The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (attributed to Oliver Goldsmith)

### Drama

* Isaac Bickerstaffe – operas
** Daphne and Amintor
** The Maid of the Mill
* Dorothea Biehl – Den listige Optrækkerske
* George Colman the Elder – The Comedies of Terence
* Ramón de la Cruz – El Prado por la noche
* Charles Dibdin – The Shepherd's Artifice
* Samuel Foote – The Commissary
* Carlo Gozzi – L'augellino bel verde
* Elizabeth Griffith – The Platonic Wife
* Michel-Jean Sedaine – Philosophe sans le savoir
* William Shirley – Electra

### Poetry

* James Beattie
** The Judgment of Paris
** Verses Occasioned by the Death of Charles Churchill
* William Collins – Works
* Edward Jerningham – An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey
* James Macpherson – The Works of Ossian
* Thomas Percy – Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
* Christopher Smart – A Translation of the Psalms of David
* Percival Stockdale – Churchill Defended
* Nicolás Fernandez de Moratín – La Diana o Arte de la caza

### Non-fiction

* William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England (publication begins)
* John Bunyan (died 1688) – Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan
* Anders Chydenius – The National Gain (Den nationnale winsten)
* Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro – Opera omnia
* Henry Fuseli – Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks (translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann)
* Oliver Goldsmith – Essays
* William Kenrick – A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare
* Filip Lastrić
** Epitome vetustatum Bosnensis provinciae
** Od uzame
* Friedrich Christoph Oetinger – Swedenborg und anderer Irrdische und himmlische Philosophie
* Joseph Priestley – Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life
* George Alexander Stevens – The Celebrated Lecture on Heads
* Tobias Smollett – Continuation of the History of England (a supplement to Hume's History of England; final volume)
* Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes – Tratado de la regalía de amortización

## Births

* January 11 – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (died 1825)
* March 27 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher (died 1841)
* April 22 – James Grahame, Scottish poet (died 1811)
* September 14 – Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, German bookseller (died 1837)
* September 15 – Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet (died 1805)
* October 24 – James Mackintosh, Scottish historian (died 1832)
* November 30 – Johann Friedrich Abegg, German theologian (died 1840)
* unknown date – Jippensha Ikku (十返舎 一九 Shigeta Sadakazu), Japanese novelist (died 1831)
* Probable year of birth – Henry Luttrell, English wit (died 1851)

## Deaths

* March 3 – William Stukeley, English antiquary (born 1687)
* April 5 – Edward Young, English poet, playwright and literary theorist (born 1683)
* April 11 – Lewis Morris, Welsh poet, antiquary and lexicographer (born 1701)
* April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (born 1711)
* April 23 – Sarah Dixon, English poet (born 1671 or 1672)
* May 1 – Franz Neumayr, German controversialist and theologian (born 1697)
* December 31 – Samuel Madden, Irish social and political writer (born 1686)
* Unknown date
** David Mallet, Scottish poet and playwright (born c. 1705)
** James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (born 1736)