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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Samuel Pepys is obliged to give up keeping his diary in May.

[edit] New books

• Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens - Jan Swammerdam
• Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch - Hans von Grimmelshausen

[edit] New drama

• John Dryden - Tyrannic Love
• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Guzman
• Jean Racine - Britannicus

[edit] Births

• Jiang Tingxi, encyclopaedist (died 1732)
• Thomas Woolston, deist writer (died 1731)

[edit] Deaths

• March 19 - John Denham, poet (born 1615)
• September 30 - Henry King, poet (born 1592)
• December 16 - Nathaniel Fiennes (born c.1608)