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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Samuel Pepys starts his diary on January 1.
• Blaise Pascal's Lettres Provinciales is burned as a heretical work on the orders of King Louis XIV of France.
• Following the Restoration, British theatres reopen and Samuel Pepys begins keeping his diary. Richard Baxter is among those who return to London.
• Roger Boyle receives the title of Earl of Orrery.

[edit] New books

• Astraea Redux - John Dryden
• Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience - Jeremy Taylor

[edit] New drama

• Molière - Sganarelle, ou le Cocu imaginaire

[edit] Non-fiction

• Richard Flecknoe - Heroick Portraits

[edit] Births

• January - Pierre Helyot (died 1716)
• September - Daniel Defoe (died 1731)
• date unknown - Edward Lhuyd (died 1709)
• date unknown - Thomas Southerne (died 1749)

[edit] Deaths

• October 6 - Paul Scarron (born c.1610)
• date unknown - Sir Thomas Urquhart (born 1611)