See also: 1672 in literature, other events of 1673, 1674 in literature, list of years in literature. See also: 1671 in literature, other events of 1672, 1673 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Events January 22 - Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation March 18 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Quakers. ... See also: 1673 in literature, other events of 1674, 1675 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ...

Events

• Thomas Killigrew is appointed Master of the Revels.

Thomas Killigrew (1612 - March 19, 1683), was an English dramatist. ... Master of the Revels was an office within the British royal household that originally had minor responsibilities for overseeing royal festivities. ...

New books

• England's appeal from the Private Cabal at Whitehall to the Great Council of the Nation by a true Lover of his Country - pamphlet attributed to Sir William Coventry
• Lapponia by Johannes Schefferus
• Shugi Washo

Sir William Coventry (c. ... Lapponia is a book written by Johannes Schefferus (1621 - 1679) covering a very comprehensive history of Northern Scandinavia topology, environment and Sami living condition, dwelling-places, clothing, gender roles, hunting, child raising, shamanism and pagan religion. ... Johannes Schefferus (February 2, 1621 - March 26, 1679) was born in Strassburg, the present Strasbourg, in present-day France (at that time it was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and outside of France). ...

New drama

• Aphra Behn - The Dutch Lover
• News from Plymouth, The Law Against Lovers and The Fair Favourite, plays by Sir William Davenant (published posthumously)
• Molière - Le malade imaginaire

A sketch of Aphra Behn by George Scharf from a portrait believed to be lost. ... William Davenant Sir William Davenant (February 28, 1606 - April 7, 1668), also spelled DAvenant, was an English poet and playwright. ... Molière, engraved frontispiece to his Works Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière (January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673), was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire. ...

Births

• October 26 - Dimitrie Cantemir, first author of a book in Romanian

October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining. ... Dimitrie Cantemir (-Romanian, Дмитрий Кантемир in Russian, Kantemiroğlu in Turkish, Kantymir in Polish), (October 26, 1673 - 1723) was a Moldavian Voivode (Prince; March-April 1693 and 1710-1711), philosopher, historian, composer, linguist and scholar. ...

Deaths

• February 17 - Molière
• date unknown - Margaret Cavendish