1763 in literature

The following literary events and publications occurred in the year 1763.

Events

January – Christopher Smart's asylum confinement ends at Mr Potter's asylum in London. While confined, Smart has written A Song to David, published this year, and Jubilate Agno, not published until 1939.
April 30 – A warrant is issued in Britain for the arrest of John Wilkes for seditious writings in The North Briton
May 16 – James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in Covent Garden, London.
October 11 – The marriage of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale takes place. Both later become close friends and companions of Dr Samuel Johnson.
December 6 – John Wilkes brings a court action for trespass against Robert Wood, after the Lord Chief Justice rules that parliamentary privilege protects Wilkes from arrest for libel.
unknown dates
*Fedor Emin's Nepostoyannaya fortuna, the first Russian novel, is published.
*The atheist English printer John Baskerville produces an edition of The Holy Bible for Cambridge University Press in his Baskerville typeface.
probable – Chinese Qing dynasty scholar Sun Zhu compiles Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology of poems from the Chinese Tang dynasty.

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
Cao Xueqin – ''The Chronicles of the Stone''

Almanach de Gotha
John Ash – Grammatical Institutes
Thomas Bayes – An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances
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
William Williams Pantycelyn – Atteb Philo-Evangelius i Martha Philopur
Emanuel Swedenborg – Doctrine of Holy Scripture
Henry Venn – The Complete Duty of Man
Voltaire – Traité sur la tolérance
William Warburton – The Doctrine of Grace
John Wesley – ''A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation''