1667 In Literature

Events

• The Roman Catholic Church places the works of Ren Descartes on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
• Molire's play, Tartuffe, is banned.
• Edmund Castell is imprisoned for debt.
• Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, is impeached by Parliament and forced into exile in France, where he spends the rest of his life working on his history of the English Civil War.
• Elias Ashmole presents the library of John Tradescant to the University of Oxford.

New Books

• Andromaque (play) - Jean Racine
• Paradise Lost - John Milton
• Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666 - John Dryden
• Secret Love (play) - John Dryden
• Biography of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle by his wife, Margaret Cavendish

Births

• April 29 - John Arbuthnot
• November 30 - Jonathan Swift
• probable - Susanna Centlivre

Deaths

• May 2 - George Wither
• May 14 - Georges de Scudry
• July 28 - Abraham Cowley
• August 13 - Jeremy Taylor

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