1676 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1676.

Events

March 2 â George Etherege's play The Man of Mode is given its first performance, in London.^[1]
May 22 â Samuel Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House.^[2]
December 11 â The first performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer is given in London.^[1]
December â 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.^[3]

Robert Barclay â Theses Theologiae
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery â English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
Charles Cotton â Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
Ann, Lady Fanshawe â Memoir (of her deceased courtier husband, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet)
Domingo FernÃ¡ndez Navarrete â 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 â La Terre Australe connue (The Southern Land, Known)^[4]
Thomas Tomkinson â Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism.
Izaak Walton â The Compleat Angler, 5th edition

June 21 â Anthony Collins, English philosopher (died 1729)
October 8 â Benito JerÃ³nimo FeijÃ³o y Montenegro, Spanish scholar and monk (died 1764)
Unknown dates
- PÃ©ter 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)