1666 In Literature

Events

• Samuel Pepys records details of the Great Fire of London in his diary.
• Aphra Behn goes to Antwerp to work as a government spy.

New Books

• De Arte Combinatoria (`On the Art of Combination') - Gottfried Leibniz
• De principiis et ratiocinatione geometrarum - Thomas Hobbes
• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - John Bunyan
• Le Misanthrope - Molire
• Satires du Sieur D.... - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Births

• August 13 - William Wotton
• exact date unknown - Mary Astell, the "first British feminist"
• exact date unknown - Josiah Burchett, clerk to Samuel Pepys
• probable - John Harris, encyclopaedist

Deaths

• June 30 - Alexander Brome, poet
• October 29 - James Shirley

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