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The year 1780 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

Karl von Marinelli becomes head of the Schultz theatre company ("Schultzsche Gesellschaft") of Baden.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan is elected to Parliament

Hannah Cowley - The Maid of Aragon
George Crabbe - The Candidate
Herbert Croft - The Abbey of Kilkhampton; or, Monumental Records for the Year 1980 (satire)
Susannah Harrison - Songs in the Night
William Hayley - An Essay on History
Anna Seward - Elegy on Captain Cook
Christoph Martin Wieland - Oberon

William Beckford - Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters
Jacob Bryant - An Address to Dr. Priestley
Edmund Burke - Speech on Oeconomical Reformation
William Combe - Letters of the Late Lord Lyttelton (forgeries)
Martin Madan - Thelyphthora (in favor of polygamy)
Johannes von Müller - Geschichten der Schweizer
John Nichols - A Select Collection of Poems
Richard Price - An Essay on the Population of England
Joseph Priestley - Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever
Isaac Reed - A Select Collection of Old Plays (from Robert Dodsley's press)
William Shakespeare - Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Stevens (by Edmund Malone)
Sarah Trimmer - An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature, and Reading the Holy Scriptures (for children)
John Wesley - Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion
Arthur Young - A Tour in Ireland