1763 in literature

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This is a list of literature-related events in 1763.

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April 30 - A warrant is issued for the arrest of John Wilkes for his seditious writings in The North Briton
May 16 - James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in London.
October 11 - Marriage of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, later close friends and companions of Dr Samuel Johnson.

Frances Brooke - The History of Lady Julia Mandeville
James Grieve - English translation of Stepan Krasheninnikov's History of Kamtschatka
Susannah Minifie and Margaret Minifie - The Histories of Lady Frances S---- and Lady Caroline S----
John Langhorne - The Letters that Passed Between Theodosius and Constantia
The Peregrinations of Jeremiah Grant (anonymous)
Cao Xueqin - The Chronicles of the Stone

John Ash - Grammatical Institutes
Thomas Bayes - An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances (posthumously published)
Hugh Blair - A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian
John Brown - A Dissertation on Poetry and Music
Philip Doddridge - A Course of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity
Immanuel Kant - The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God
Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz - History of Louisiana; an English translation, in two volumes, of Histoire de la Louisiane, published in 1758
Catharine Macaulay - The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
Mary Wortley Montagu - Letters
Robert Orme - A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from the Year 1745
Henry Venn - The Complete Duty of Man
William Warburton - The Doctrine of Grace
John Wesley - A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation

January 29 - Johann Gottfried Seume, travel writer (died 1810)
March 9 - William Cobbett, journalist (died 1835)
July 30 - Samuel Rogers, poet (died 1855)
September 2 - Karoline Schelling, literary critic (died 1809)
date unknown
- Mary Berry, dramatist and correspondent of Horace Walpole (died 1852)
- Shen Fu, Chinese chronicler (died c. 1810)

January 11 - Caspar Abel, poet and theologian (born 1676)
February 11 - William Shenstone, poet (born 1714)
June 29 - Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish poet and salon hostess (born 1718)
September 26 - John Byrom, poet (born 1692)
December 23 - Antoine François Prévost, French author, better known as the Abbé Prévost (born 1697)
probable - Cao Xueqin, Chinese novelist (born c. 1715)