1676 in literature

none 1676 literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1676. Events March 2 – George Etherege's play The Man of Mode is given its first performance, in London.1676 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Gale Group, Inc. 2006 May 22 – Samuel Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House.C. S. Knighton Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 Online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21906 2013-07-15 10.1093/ref:odnb/21906 December 11 – The first performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer is given in London. December – The German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz arrives in Hanover to take up a post as "councillor" and librarian to Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg.M. B. W. Tent Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Polymath Who Brought Us Calculus https://books.google.com/books?id=5hTSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA111 17 October 2011 CRC Press 978-1-4398-9224-4 111 New books Prose Robert Barclay – Theses Theologiae Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – English-Adventures by a Person of Honor Charles Cotton – Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler) Ann, Lady Fanshawe – Memoir (of her deceased courtier husband, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet) Domingo Fernández Navarrete – Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China (An Account of the Empire of China, Historical, Political, Moral, and Religious) Gabriel de Foigny – La Terre Australe connue (The Southern Land, Known)Geoffroy Atkinson, The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700, 1920 p. 36. Thomas Tomkinson – Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism. Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, 5th edition Drama Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (?) – Zoroastres John Crowne –The Country Wit Thomas Duffet – Beauty's Triumph (masque) Thomas d'Urfey The Fool Turned Critic Madam Fickle George Etherege – The Man of Mode Nathaniel Lee – Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar Thomas Otway – Don Carlos, Prince of Spain Edward Ravenscroft – The Wrangling Lovers Thomas Rawlins – Tom Essence Elkanah Settle Pastor Fido The Conquest of China by the Tartars Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa (adapted from a story by Madeleine de Scudéry) Thomas Shadwell The Libertine The Virtuoso William Wycherley – The Plain Dealer Agustín Moreto El lindo don Diego No puede ser... El parecido en la corte Verdadera III parte de comedias Births June 21 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (died 1729) July 4 – José de Cañizares, Spanish dramatist (died 1750) October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar and monk (died 1764) Unknown dates Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (died 1752) Samuel Bownas, English Quaker religious writer (died 1753) William Gwavas, English lawyer and writer in the Cornish language (died 1741) Deaths March 22 – Lady Anne Clifford, English patron and correspondent (born 1590)Anne Clifford https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/women-in-history/anne-clifford/ English Heritage 26 March 2019 July 27 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer and cleric (born 1604) August 17 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (born 1621) September 2 – Edward Worsley, English religious writer (born 1605) October 25 – Justus Georg Schottel, German grammarian (born 1612) November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (born 1589) December 18 – Edward Benlowes, English poet (born 1603) December 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English polymath (born 1592) References 30em