1686 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1686.
Events
- January â John Dryden is recorded as having converted to Roman Catholicism.[1]
New books
Prose
- Pierre Bayle â Philosophical Commentary (on religious freedom)
- Bernard de Fontenelle
- Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds)
- L'Histoire des oracles
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Ihara Saikaku (äºå 西鶴)
- Twenty Cases of Unfilial Children (æ¬æäºåä¸å HonchÅ NijÅ« FukÅ)
- The Life of an Amorous Woman (好è²ä¸ä»£å¥³ KÅshoku Ichidai Onna)
- Thomas Sydenham â Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu (Schedule of Symptoms of Newly Arrived Fever)
Children
- John Bunyan â A Book for Boys and Girls, or, Country Rhymes for Children
Drama
Poetry
- Anne Killigrew (posthumously) â Poems
Births
- January 17 â Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (died 1766)
- August 12 â John Balguy, English philosopher (died 1748)
- September 5 â Antoine Touron, French historian and biographer (died 1775)
- unknown date â Alban Thomas, Welsh physician and antiquarian (died 1771)[3]
Deaths
- January 31 â Jean Mairet, French dramatist (born 1604)[4]
- February 6 â Dorothy White, English Quaker pamphleteer (born c. 1630)[5]
- February 10 â William Dugdale, English antiquary and herald (born 1605)
- February 25 â Abraham Calovius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1612)
- June 23 â Sir William Coventry, English statesman and author (born c. 1628)
- July 10 â John Fell, English academic and bishop (born 1625)
- August 13 â Louis Maimbourg, French Jesuit historian (born 1610)
- November 25 â Nicolas Steno (Niels Steenson), Danish scientist (born 1638)
- November 28 â Nicolas Letourneux, French religious writer (born 1640)
- December 6 â Nicola Avancini, Italian Jesuit writer (born 1612)