1765 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1765. Events January 10 – Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson. August 12 – I'tisam-ud-Din writes the Treaty of Allahabad between the Mughal Empire and the British East India Company October 10 – Samuel Johnson's edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published in London after ten years in the making. unknown date – Denis Diderot completes the Encyclopédie. Approximate year – Beginning of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature. New books Fiction Henry Brooke – The Fool of Quality (volume one; the fifth and last appeared in 1770) Madame Riccoboni – L'Histoire d'Ernestine Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (vol vii–viii) Anonymous – The Fruit-Shop