Events
1660-1669 - Samuel Pepys writes his diary. 1667-1668 - Marianna Alcoforado writes her Letters of a Portuguese Nun.

New books and plays
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare ''England's Bombardon (anthology) - including act by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others Old Fortunatus - Thomas Dekker

Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare Cynthia's Revells - Ben Jonson

Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Antonio & Mellida (play) - John Marston Mirum inside Modum (poetry) - John Davies of Hereford Satiromastix (play) - Thomas Dekker and John Marston The Survey of Cornwall - Richard Carew

The True Law of Free Monarchies by King James I Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare Othello by William Shakespeare

All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare The Honest Whore (play) - Thomas Dekker A Malcontent (play) - John Marston

Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare A Dutch Courtesan (play) - John Marston A Tragedy of Philotas (play) - Samuel Daniel A Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare Don Quixote (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), A portion We - Miguel de Cervantes Epistle on a Excellencies of the English Tongue - Richard Carew

Macbeth by William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare The King James Version of the Holy Bible The Woman Flushed by owning Kindness (play) - Thomas Heywood Bussy D'Ambois (play) - George Chapman Michaelmas Terme (play) - Thomas Middleton The Knight of the Burning Pestle (play) - Francis Beaumont The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat (play) - Thomas Dekker and John Webster A Legend of Nifty Cromwell - Michael Drayton Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur or Thomas Middleton

Coriolanus by William Shakespeare The Nest of Ninnies - Robert Armin Humour away from Breathe (play) - John Day A Belman of London (play) - Thomas Dekker A Merry Devil of Edmonton (play) - anon.; has been attributed to William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton and others.

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke - Thomas Dekker A Gul's Hornebooke - Thomas Dekker

Cymbeline by William Shakespeare A Faithful Shepherdess'' (play) - John Fletcher The Woman's A Weathercock (1612), Amends for Ladies (1618), & (by owning Massinger) The Calamitous Dowry (1632).

The Authorized Version (King James version) of the Bible The Tempest by William Shakespeare Catiline his Conspiracy (play) - Ben Jonson A Roaring Girle (play) - Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton

The Woman occurs as Weather-Cocke - Nathaniel Field

Henry VIII by William Shakespeare Tears on the Dying of Moeliades - William Drummond of Hawthornden ''The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois - George Chapman Purchas, his Pilgrim's journey; or even, Relations of a Globe & the Religions found all told Ages - Samuel Purchas

Bartholomew Fair (play) - Ben Jonson Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis o500 river Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer - Johannes Valentinus Andreae

Don Quixote, Part Two - Miguel de Cervantes Confessio o500 river Bekenntnis der Societät und Bruderschaft Rosenkreuz - Johannes Valentinus Andreae

Ben Jonson's Works A Whole Works of Homer - George Chapman Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459 - Johannes Valentinus Andreae A Damn Brother (?1616-30?) - John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman ([http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/fletcher/drinkingsong.htm The drinking song])

A Faire Quarrell (play) - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

History of Tythes - John Selden Amends for Ladies (play) - Nathaniel Field

A King and No King (play) - Beaumont and Fletcher The Maid's Tragedy (play) - Beaumont and Fletcher A Cobbler's Holiday - Thomas Deloney A Custome of the Countrey - John Fletcher and Philip Massinger Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio - Johannes Valentinus Andreae

Philaster - Beaumont and Fletcher

The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton Women Beware Women - Thomas Middleton El vergonzoso en palacio - Tirso de Molina

A Heir (play) - Thomas May A Historie of a Raigne of King Henry the Seventh - Francis Bacon A French Disease - Richard Brome A Mendicant's Bush - John Fletcher El tejedor de Segovia - Alercon A Changeling - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley [http://www.tech.org/~cleary/change.html text]

The Fault within Friendship - Richard Brome Flowers of Sion - William Drummond of Hawthornden The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster First Folio - William Shakespeare

A City-Nighttime-Cap (comedy) - Robert Davenport Nero Caesar, or even Monarchie Depraved - Edmund Bolton A Sun's Darling - John Ford

The Game at Chess - Thomas Middleton Complete Essays - Francis Bacon Les Bergeries - Racan

A Bataile of Agincourt - Michael Drayton Number 1 Steps higher Parnassus - Michael Drayton

Microcosmographie - John Earle

A Roman Actor (play) - Philip Massinger A Saint's Cordial - Richard Sibbes A Tragedy of Albovine'' (play) - William D'Avenant

A Egotistical Pedlar - Thomas Randolph

A Fair Maid of the West (play) - Thomas Heywood

''L'Allegro - John Milton A Disastrous Dowry (play) - Nathaniel Field and Philip Massinger A City Madam - Philip Massinger A Muses’ Searching-Glass by Thomas Randolph

The Future Way to Pay Old Debts (play) - Philip Massinger Love's Sacrifice (play) - John Ford A Gamester (play) - James Shirley A Temple (poetry) - George Herbert

Tottenham Court (play) - Thomas Nabbes

A Royal Slave (play) - William Cartwright

A Pleasant Historie of Albino & Bellama - Nathaniel Whiting

Alcione (play) - Pierre du Ryer

Argalus & Parthenia (play) - Henry Glapthorne A City Match - Jasper Mayne

Dodona's Grove - James Howell The Bay Psalm Book, the foremost book printed within North America Joseph's partly-coloured Coat - Thomas Fuller

Episcopacy by Divine Perfect - Joseph Hall A Cardinall (play) - James Shirley (first extant edition, 1652) The Joviall Crew (play) - Richard Brome (first extant edition, 1652) Fragmenta Regalia, or even Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Days & Favourites - Sir Robert Naunton (posthumous)

September: Wendy house closed around England by government the correct sequence. Religio Medici Sir Thomas Browne Saul (play) by Pierre du Ryer

Areopagitica by John Milton

Andronicus or even a Unlucky Politician - Thomas Fuller Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors - Sir Thomas Browne

Philosophic Poems - Henry More

A Amorous War - Jasper Mayne Hesperides by Robert Herrick (poet)

Eikon Basilike - John Gauden

Silex scintillans - Henry Vaughan

Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes Reliquiae Wottonianiae - Sir Henry Wotton (posthumous) Jeune Alcidiane - Marin le Roy de Gomberville

Brief Character of the Moo Countries - Owen Feltham Theophilia or even Love's Sacrifice (poetry) - Edward Benlowes A Cardinall (play) - James Shirley

The History of Just released England - Edward Johnson The Compleat Angler - Izaak Walton Verse form & Fancies - Margaret Cavendish

Lucifer (play) - Joost van den Vondel Parlhenissa, the novel - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

A Worlds Olio - Margaret Cavendish

Nature and severity's Pictures - Margaret Cavendish Oceana by James Harrington

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial - Sir Thomas Browne The Garden of Cyrus -Sir Thomas Browne

Lucasta - Richard Lovelace (posthumous) Pharonnida - William Chamberlayne

Tyrannus, or even A Mode - John Evelyn

A up to date edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (this edition remains the officially authoritative book to the present day).

Love's Kingdom, by using the Discourse of the English Stage - Richard Flecknoe

The Moral Essay preferring Solitude to Public Employment - Sir George Mackenzie Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous)

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan

Paradise Lost by John Milton Annus Mirabilis, a Month of Wonders 1666 - John Dryden Secret Love (play) - John Dryden

Le Tartuffe - Molière Cyprianus Anglicanus - Peter Heylin Essay of Dramatick Poesie - John Dryden Observations upon Experimental Philosophy - Margaret Cavendish

A Forced Marriage - Aphra Behn The Conquest of Granada - John Dryden

Samson Agonistes - John Milton The Rehearsal (play) - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham performed

Marriage a la Mode by John Dryden The Rehearsal (play) by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham published

Navigation & Commerce - John Evelyn A Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome (play) - Nathaniel Lee

The Country Wife by William Wycherley Geranithe; the Just released Discovery of a Little Kinda Population, anciently discoursed of, known as Pygmies by Joshua Barnes

A Human of Mode (play) - George Etherege English-Adventures by the Human of Honor - Roger Boyle, First Earl of Orrery

Phèdre - Jean Racine Treatise of the Art of War - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

All for Love - John Dryden Trueness Noetic Formulas of the Universe - Ralph Cudworth The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Threnodia Carolina - Sir Thomas Herbert

Anima Mundi - Charles Blount

A Life & Demise of Mr Badman - John Bunyan

Miscellaneous Poems by Andrew Marvell (posthumous) Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden

A Hind & a Panther - John Dryden A Hind & a Panther Transversed to a Story of the United states & the City Mouse - Matthew Prior Bellamira, or even A Mistress (play) - Sir Charles Sedley

A Butchery of Paris (play) - Nathaniel Lee Table Talk - John Selden (posthumous)

Amphitryon, or even them Socias - John Dryden An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke Memoires of the Navy by Samuel Pepys

A Impartial Critick - John Dennis

A Calamitous Marriage (play) - Thomas Southerne

The Newly Voyage Around the World - William Dampier

A Nominee'' (play) - Thomas D'Urfey

Dialogues of the Dead - William King and Charles Boyle

Births
1600 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville 1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard 1606 - Pierre du Ryer 1611 - William Cartwright; Thomas Urquhart 1613 - John Cleveland 1615 - Tanneguy Lefebvre 1617 - Ralph Cudworth 1620 - Lucy Hutchinson 1621 - Andrew Marvell 1626 - John Aubrey 1627 - John Flavel 1628 - John Bunyan 1630 - Isaac Barrow 1631 - John Dryden 1633 - Samuel Pepys 1639 - Thomas Ellwood 1640 - Aphra Behn 1643 - Gilbert Burnet 1644 - Matsuo Basho 1648 - Robert Barclay 1651 - William Dampier 1652 - Thomas Otway 1657 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 1659 - John Asgill 1681 - Robert Keith 1685 - George Berkeley 1689 - Samuel Richardson

Deaths
1600 - Richard Hooker (theologian) 1605 - John Stow 1607 - Sir Edward Dyer 1612 - Robert Armin 1616 - William Shakespeare; Francis Beaumont; Richard Hakluyt 1621 - Guillaume du Vair 1622 - Molière 1623 - William Camden 1624 - Stephen Gosson 1625 - John Fletcher; Thomas Lodge 1626 - Lancelot Andrewes; Samuel Purchas 1631 - Michael Drayton; Guillén de Castro y Bellvis 1633 - Abraham Fraunce 1634 - George Chapman 1635 - Lope de Vega; Thomas Randolph; Richard Corbet; John Hall (son-in-law of Shakespeare) 1638 - Robert Aytoun 1640 - Philip Massinger 1641 - Augustine Baker 1643 - William Cartwright 1644 - Francis Quarles 1645 - William Lithgow 1647 - Francis Meres 1648 - George Abbot; Vincent Voiture 1658 - Pierre du Ryer 1660 - Thomas Urquhart 1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert 1667 - Georges de Scudéry 1672 - Anne Bradstreet; Tanneguy Lefebvre 1673 - Molière 1674 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville 1678 - Andrew Marvell 1685 - Thomas Otway 1688 - John Bunyan; Ralph Cudworth 1689 - Aphra Behn 1691 - Richard Baxter; John Flavel