1676 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1676.Events
Prose
- Robert Barclay – Theses Theologiae
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
- Charles Cotton – Cotton's Angler
- Ann, Lady Fanshawe – Memoir
- Domingo Fernández Navarrete – Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China
- Gabriel de Foigny – La Terre Australe connue
- Thomas Tomkinson – Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism.
- Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, 5th edition
Drama
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – Zoroastres
- Thomas Duffet – Beauty's Triumph
- Thomas d'Urfey
- *The Fool Turned Critic
- *Madame Fickle
- George Etherege – The Man of Mode
- Nathaniel Lee – Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar
- Thomas Otway – Don Carlos
- Edward Ravenscroft – The Wrangling Lovers
- Thomas Rawlins – Tom Essence, or the Modish Wife
- Elkanah Settle
- *The Conquest of China by the Tartars
- *Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa
- Thomas Shadwell
- *The Libertine
- *The Virtuoso
- William Wycherley – The Plain Dealer
- Agustín Moreto
- *El lindo don Diego
- *No puede ser...
- *El parecido en la corte
- *Verdadera III parte de comedias''
Births
- June 21 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher
- July 4 – José de Cañizares, Spanish dramatist
- October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar and monk
- Unknown dates
- *Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin
- *Samuel Bownas, English Quaker religious writer
- *William Gwavas, English lawyer and writer in the Cornish language
Deaths
- March 22 – Lady Anne Clifford, English patron and correspondent
- July 25 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer and cleric
- August 17 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer
- September 2 – Edward Worsley, English religious writer
- October 25 – Justus Georg Schottel, German grammarian
- November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian
- December 18 – Edward Benlowes, English poet
- December 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English polymath
