1666 in literature

See also: 1665 in literature, other events of 1666, 1667 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths

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 - Molière
• 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

See also: 1666 in literature, 1665 in literature, 1666, 1667 in literature, Alexander Brome, Aphra Behn, August 13, Gottfried Leibniz, Great Fire of London, James Shirley