Events
- Henry James Pye became Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- March - Jens Baggesen, after ridiculing his fellow Danes in his poem, Holger the Dane and leaving Denmark for Germany, Baggensen went on to Switzerland, became a good friend of the Swiss poet Johan Kaspar Lavater, a leader in the Sturm und Drang movement, and this month returned to Denmark.
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