1671 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1671.

Events

February – Nell Gwyn retires from the stage and moves into a brick townhouse at 79 Pall Mall, London.^[1]
November 9 – The Duke's Company open their new venue, the Dorset Garden Theatre.
Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières is awarded the first prize given for poetry by the Académie française.^[2]
Philosophus Autodidactus, the first Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's 12th century tale Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, prepared by Edward Pococke before 1660, is published for the first time.

Edward Bagshaw (attributed) – The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor Powell
Edward Burrough (died 1663) – The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: Namely, that True Prophet, and Faithful Servant of God, and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs...
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu – Les Amours des Grands Hommes
Johann Ferdinand Hertodt – Crocologia
John Josselyn – New England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country (London)
Gottfried Leibniz – Hypothesis Physica Nova (`New Physical Hypothesis')
Pierre Martin de La Martinière – Voyage des pays septentrionaux (A New Voyage to the North)
Arnoldus Montanus – De nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld of Beschryving van America (The Unknown New World or Description of the Continent America)
Isaac Newton – Method of Fluxions
Jane Sharp – The Midwives Book: or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered

January 1 – Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, French historian and cleric (born 1606)
January 22 – Odorico Raynaldi, Italian historian (born 1595)
February 22 – Adam Olearius, German librarian and scholar (born 1603)
July 14 – Méric Casaubon, Swiss-born English classicist (born 1599)
September 28 – Jean de Montigny, French philosopher and poet (born 1636)
December 28 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classicist (born 1611)

^ Sheppard, F. H. W., ed. (1960). "No. 79 Pall Mall: Nell Gwynne's house". St James Westminster, Pt 1. Survey of London vol. 29–30. pp. 377–378. Retrieved 2013-07-12.
^ France, Peter (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 234. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.

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