This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1676.
Events
New books
Prose
- 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 Fernández 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)
- Thomas Tomkinson â Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism.
- Izaak Walton â The Compleat Angler, 5th edition
Drama
Births
Deaths
- March 22 â Lady Anne Clifford, English patron and correspondent (born 1590)
- July 25 â François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer and cleric (born 1604)
- August 17 â Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (born 1621)
- September 2 â Edward Worsley, English religious writer (born 1605)
- October 25 â Justus Georg Schottel, German grammarian (born 1612)
- November 1 â Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (born 1589)
- December 18 â Edward Benlowes, English poet (born 1603)
- December 25 â William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English polymath (born 1592)
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