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Overview of the events of 1676 in literature
Overview of the events of 1676 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1676 .
Events
New books
Prose
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 )
Ann, Lady Fanshawe – Memoir (of her deceased courtier husband,
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet )
Domingo Fernández Navarrete – Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China (An Account of the Empire of China, Historical, Political, Moral, and Religious)
Gabriel de Foigny – La Terre Australe connue (The Southern Land, Known)
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Thomas Tomkinson –
Truth's Triumph . A book on
Muggletonianism .
Izaak Walton –
The Compleat Angler , 5th edition
Drama
Births
Deaths
March 22 –
Lady Anne Clifford , English patron and correspondent (born
1590 )
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July 25 –
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac , French writer and cleric (born
1604 )
August 17 –
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen , German writer (born
1621 )
September 2 –
Edward Worsley , English religious writer (born
1605 )
October 25 –
Justus Georg Schottel , German grammarian (born
1612 )
November 1 –
Gisbertus Voetius , Dutch theologian (born
1589 )
December 18 –
Edward Benlowes , English poet (born
1603 )
December 25 –
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle , English polymath (born
1592 )
References