Literature year 1660
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Overview of the literary
years Further events
Events
- January 1st : Samuel Pepys begins his secret diary .
- September 5th : Roger Boyle is appointed Earl of Orrery and Lord Justice of Ireland by Charles II .
- December 8th : probably for the first time a female actress appears on an English stage (as Desdemona in Othello ).
- Dutch merchants give Karl II the Klencke Atlas , one of the world's largest atlases.
- The Lettres provinciales by Blaise Pascal are banned by the orders of Louis XIV and burned at the stake.
New books
- Aloisiae Sigeae Toletanae Satyra sotadica de arcanis Amoris et Veneris - Nicolas Chorier
- Astraea Redux - John Dryden
- The straight and easy path to a free Republic (The ready & easie way to establish a free Commonwealth) - John Milton
- The armored Venus - Kaspar von Stieler
- Martyr's Mirror (De Martelaersspiegel) - Thieleman Janz van Braght
New plays
- Sganarelle ou le Cocu imaginaire - Molière
- The rump, or, The mirrour of the late times: a new comedy - John Tatham
- Love's Labyrinth, or the Royal Shepherdess - Thomas Ford
Born
- February 11 : Wolfgang Christoph Deßler , German poet and vice-principal († 1722 )
- March 28 : Arnold Houbraken , Dutch painter and art writer († 1719 )
- April 6 : Johann Kuhnau , German composer and writer of the Baroque († 1722 )
- May 27 : Christian Gerber , German Lutheran theologian and writer († 1731 )
- Edward Lhuyd , Welsh botanist and linguist
- Johann Georg Schmidt , pharmacist, scientist and Enlightenment writer († 1722 )
- Francesco Antonio Tullio , Italian librettist († 1737 )
- around 1660: Daniel Defoe , English writer, author of the novel Robinson Crusoe († 1731 )
Died
- April 30th : Petrus Scriverius , Dutch philologist, historian and writer
- July 6 : Johannes Barzaeus , Swiss neo-Latin poet
- August 31 : Johannes Freinsheim , German historian and philologist
- September 8th : Daniel von Czepko , German poet and playwright
- September 12 : Jacob Cats , Dutch poet and politician
- October 7th : Paul Scarron , French writer
- Thomas Urquhart , Scottish poet and translator of the works of Rabelais
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