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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' An Essay On The Nature And Immutability Of Truth '' - James Beattie

'' Poems On Several Occasions '' - Michael Bruce

'' The System Of Nature '' - Baron D'Holbach

NEW DRAMA

Pierre De Beaumarchais - ''Les Deux Amis''

Johannes Ewald - '' Rolf Krage ''

BIRTHS

March 20 - Friedrich Hölderlin , German poet

April 7 - William Wordsworth

''unknown date'' - James Hogg

DEATHS

August 24 - Thomas Chatterton ( Suicide )

November 1 - Alexander Cruden

November 24 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault

AWARDS