1676 in literature
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The year 1676 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Samuel Pepys becomes Master of Trinity House.
[edit] New books
- Robert Barclay - Theses Theologiae
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
- Charles Cotton - Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
- Gabriel de Foigney - The Adventures of James Sadeur and the Discovery of Australia
- Baruch Spinoza - Ethics
- Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, 5th edition
[edit] New drama
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (?) - Zoroastres
- Thomas Duffet - Beauty's Triumph (masque)
- Thomas d'Urfey - The Fool Turned Critic
- - Madame Fickle
- George Etherege - The Man of Mode
- Nathaniel Lee - Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar
- Thomas Otway - Don Carlos
- Edward Ravenscroft - The Wrangling Lovers
- Thomas Rawlins the younger - Tom Essence, or the Modish Wife
- Elkanah Settle - The Conquest of China by the Tartars
- - Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa (adapted from a story by Madeleine de Scudéry)
- Thomas Shadwell - The Virtuoso
- William Wycherley - The Plain Dealer
[edit] Births
- June 21 - Anthony Collins, philosopher (died 1729)
- July 4 - José de Cañizares, dramatist (died 1750)
- date unknown
- Samuel Bownas, Quaker writer
- Alexander Selkirk, the original Robinson Crusoe (died 1721)
[edit] Deaths
- July 25 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac (born 1604)
- August 17 - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, novelist (born 1621)
- October 25 - Justus Georg Schottel, grammarian (born 1612)
- November 1 - Gisbertus Voetius, theologian (born 1589)
- December 18 - Edward Benlowes, poet (born 1603)
