1680 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1680.Events
Prose
- John Bunyan – The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
- Gilbert Burnet – Some Passages of the Life and Death of...John Earl of Rochester
- Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz – Neptuno alegórico
- Pedro Cubero – Peregrinación del mundo
- Pu Songling – Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
- Sir Robert Filmer – Patriarcha published
Drama
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca – Hado y Divisa de Leonido y Marfisa
- John Crowne – The Misery of Civil War, adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2 and Part 3
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle – Aspar
- Nathaniel Lee – Theodosius
- Thomas Otway
- *The History and Fall of Caius Marius
- *The Orphan
- *The Soldiers' Fortune
- Jacques Pradon – Statira
- Elkanah Settle – The Female Prelate: Being the History of the Life and Death of Pope Joan
- Nahum Tate – The Loyal General
Births
- January 23 – Joseph Ames, English author
- September 22 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet
- Unknown dates
- *Nicola Coleti, Italian historian and priest
- *Elizabeth Germain, English philanthropist and correspondent
- Probable year of birth
- *Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopedist
- *Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, Irish poet in Gaelic
- *Nezim Frakulla, Albanian poet
Deaths
- January 20 – Ann, Lady Fanshawe, English memoirist
- March 14 – René Le Bossu, French critic
- March 17 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French dramatist and writer of maxims
- March 27 – William Maurice, Welsh antiquary
- June 18 – Samuel Butler, English satirical poet
- July 3 – John Martyn, English publisher and bookseller
- July 26 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet
- November – Carr Scrope, English poet
- December 4 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish scientist and theologian
- unknown date – François de Grenaille, French dramatist and translator
