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EVENTS

The Marquis De Sade is convicted of sodomy and poisoning and receives a death sentence; he escapes.

Thomas Paine produces his first published work, a political article entitled ''Case of the Officers of Excise''.

Gottfried August Bürger obtains a magistracy and is reconciled with his family.

Charles Burney tours Europe, researching for his ''History of Music''.

Hannah More arrives in London.

NEW BOOKS

Henry Brooke - ''The Fool of Quality''

Robert Fergusson - '' The Daft Days ''

The '' Encyclopédie '' in 28 volumes by Diderot , D'Alembert , and Many Others .

NEW DRAMA

Richard Cumberland - '' The Fashionable Lover ''

Gotthold Lessing - ''Emilia Calotti''

NON-FICTION

Jinny Jenks - ''A Tour through Wales''

BIRTHS

April 11 - Manuel José Quintana , poet

May 2 - Novalis , poet and philosopher

October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge , poet

November 17 - Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers , dramatist

November 28 - Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann , classical commentator and philologist

December 6 - Henry Cary , author, editor and translator

''date unknown'' - James Ballantyne , editor and publisher

DEATHS

March 26 - Charles Pinot Duclos , novelist and historian

March 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg , philosopher

May 22 - Durastante Natalucci , historian

June - Thomas Whately , politician and writer

June 18 - Johann Ulrich Von Cramer , philosopher

October 7 - John Woolman , abolitionist author

November 10 - Pedro Correia Garção , poet

''date unknown'' - Marie Favart , influential actress and wife of Charles Simon Favart

''date unknown'' - William Wilkie , poet

AWARDS