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The year 1760 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• The death of George II leads to the accession of George III of the United Kingdom.
• James Beattie becomes a professor at the University of Aberdeen.
• Fanny Burney and her family move to London.
• Edward III (play) attributed to William Shakespeare by Edward Capell.
• The MS NKS 1867 4° (Den nye kongelige samling) manuscript is authored.

New books

• John Balguy - Sermons, vol. 2 (posthumously published)
• William Law - Of Justification by Faith and Works
• John Shebbeare - The History of the Sumatrans (satire on the Whigs)
• Tobias Smollett - The British Magazine (periodical)
• Laurence Sterne - The Sermons of Mr. Yorick (the author's sermons)
• William Tytler - An Historical and Critical Inquiry into the Evidence Against Mary Queen of Scots

Poetry

• James Beattie - Original Poems and Translations
• George Colman the Elder - Odes
• John Delap - Elegies
• Robert Lloyd - The Actor
  • - The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus
• George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - Dialogues of the Dead
• James Macpherson as "translator" - Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
• James Scott - Heaven
• John Scott - Four Elegies

Fiction

• Anonymous - Yorick's Meditations upon Various Interesting and Important Subjects (an imitation of Tristram Shandy)
• Frances Brooke - Letters from Juliet
• John Cleland - The Romance of a Day
• Sarah Fielding - The History of Ophelia
• Charles Johnstone - Chrysal vols. i - ii
• Tobias Smollett - The Life and Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves

New drama

• George Colman the Elder – Polly Honeycomb
• Carlo Goldoni - La casa nova
  • - I rusteghi
• Samuel Foote - The Minor
• John Home - The Siege of Aquileia
• Arthur Murphy - The Desert Island
  • - The Way to Keep Him
• George Alexander Stevens - The French Flogged

Births

• March 10 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist & poet (died 1828)
• May 10 - Johann Peter Hebel (died 1826)
• June 12 - Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1797)
• October 25 - Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian (died 1842)

Deaths

• March 28 - Margaret Woffington, noted actress, subject of Charles Reade's novel, Peg Woffington (born c.1720)
• April 6 - Charlotte Charke, novelist and dramatist, daughter of Colley Cibber (born 1713)
• April 10 - Jean Lebeuf, historian (born 1687)
• date unknown - Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet) (born 1705)
• date unknown - Browne Willis, historian (born 1682)