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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1773.

Events

January – Christoph Martin Wieland begins publishing the influential literary monthly Der Teutsche Merkur in Weimar.^[1]^[2]
March 15 – Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer is performed for the first time, at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.^[3]
April 13 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries singer and actress Elizabeth Ann Linley.^[4]
May 1 – Richard Wroughton takes the role of Prince Henry in Henry II, King of England by John Bancroft at Covent Garden.
May 4 – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes the keen Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire over the body of her husband Art Ó Laoghaire.^[5]
August 6 – Samuel Johnson sets out for Scotland,^[6] where on August 14 he meets James Boswell in Edinburgh for their tour to the Hebrides.^[7]
unknown dates
- Cláudio Manuel da Costa writes his epic poem Vila Rica, relating the history of the homonymous Brazilian city, modern-day Ouro Preto; it is not published until 1839.
- The last five cantos of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's epic poem Der Messias are published in Hamburg.^[8]
- Compilation of the Siku Quanshu ("Complete Library of the Four Treasuries") begins in Qing Dynasty China. The Wenjin Chamber is built at the Chengde Mountain Resort to accommodate a copy.

Elizabeth Bonhote – The Fashionable Friend
Calixto Bustamante Carlos (Concolorcorvo) – Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes
José Cadalso – Cartas marruecas (Moroccan letters)
Mrs Fogerty – The Fatal Connexion
Richard Graves – The Spiritual Quixote
Henry Mackenzie – The Man of the World
Johann Karl Wezel – Lebensgeschichte Tobias Knauts, des Weisen, sonst der Stammler genannt: aus Familiennachrichten gesammelt (Life story of Tobias Knaut the Wise, Otherwise Called the Stammerer; publication begins)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld – Poems
John Bicknell and Thomas Day – The Dying Negro
Robert Fergusson
- Poems
- Auld Reikie
Richard Graves – The Love of Order
Edward Jerningham – Faldoni and Teresa
George Keate – The Monument in Arcadia
James Macpherson – The Iliad
Hannah More – A Search After Happiness
Thomas Scott – Lyric Poems
Phillis Wheatley (described as "Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England") – Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral^[9]
John Wolcot – Persian Love Elegies
José Cadalso – Ocios de mi juventud

Anna Laetitia Barbauld and John Aikin – Miscellaneous Pieces
Patrick Brydone – A Tour Through Sicily and Malta
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo – Of the Origin and Progress of Language
Charles Burney – The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces
José Cadalso – Apuntaciones autobiográficas
Hester Chapone – Letters on the Improvement of the Mind
David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes – Remarks on the History of Scotland
Antoine Court de Gébelin – Le Monde primitif (publication begins)
John Hawkesworth – An Account of the Voyages for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere
Thomas Hawkins – The Origin of the English Drama
Tomás de Iriarte – Los literatos en Cuaresm`
Thomas Leland – The History of Ireland, from the invasion of Henry II
William Melmoth – Cato
Louis-Sébastien Mercier – L'Essai sur l'art dramatique
John Scott – Observations on the Present State of the Parochial and Vagrant Poor

April 9 – Étienne Aignan, French translator, librettist and dramatist (died 1824 in literature)
May 19 – Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Swiss scholar of literature, history and economics (died 1842)
August 21 – Jens Christian Djurhuus, Faroese poet (died 1853)
October 1 – Peter Kaiser, Liechtenstein statesman and historian (died 1864)
October 23 – Francis Jeffrey, Scottish jurist and critic (died 1850)
December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish musician and writer (died 1867)^[10]

January 21 – Alexis Piron, French dramatist and epigrammatist (born 1689)
April 20 – Hubert-François Gravelot, French book illustrator (born 1699)
April 25 – Daniele Farlati, ecclesiastical historian (born 1690)
May 15 – Alban Butler, hagiographer (born 1710)
July 5 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (born 1719)
August 3 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish political writer, poet and dramatist (born 1700)
August 20 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (born 1729)
August 28 – John Ranby, English surgeon and writer on surgery (born 1703)
September 18 – John Cunningham, Irish poet, dramatist and actor (born 1729)
November 16 – John Hawkesworth, English poet and editor (born c. 1715)

^ Scherer, Wilhelm (1886). A History of German Literature. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 46.
^ Benjamin W. Redekop; Professor Benjamin W Redekop (2000). Enlightenment and Community. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 53–. ISBN 978-0-7735-1026-5.
^ "She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night". theatrehistory.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
^ "Richard Brinsley Sheridan". theatrehistory.com. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
^ Broderick, Marian (2002). Wild Irish Women. Dublin: O'Brien Press. pp. 65–7. ISBN 978-0-86278-780-6.
^ Tisdall, Nigel (2009-06-03). "Dr Johnson's Scotland: in the Western Isles". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
^ Boswell, James (1785). The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.
^ Publications of the English Goethe Society. Society. 1991. p. 40.
^ Vincent Carretta (30 January 2014). Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. University of Georgia Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-8203-4664-9.
^ "Mariana (Marianne) Maximiliana Christiana Carolina Lovisa Ehrenström, f. Pollet". sok.riksarkivet.se. Retrieved 10 August 2020.