See also: 1766 in literature, other events of 1767, 1768 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• New Testament translated into Manx.
• Richard Price publishes his first volume of sermons.

New books

• Continuation of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph by Frances Sheridan (posthumous)
• The History of Nourjahad , also by Frances Sheridan
• Essay on the History of Civil Society - Adam Ferguson
• Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare - Richard Farmer
• Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
• Christianisme dévoilé by Paul Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach

Births

• January 1 : Maria Edgeworth
• October 25 : Benjamin Constant

Deaths

• July 15 : Michael Bruce
• December 22 : John Newbery, publisher