1620 in literature

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See also: 1619 in literature, other events of 1620, 1621 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations by Henry Ainsworth is the only book brought to New England by the pilgrim settlers.
• Thomas Middleton is appointed chronologer of the City of London.
• Appearance of the second version of The Ballad of Chevy Chase.

[edit] New books

• Francis Bacon - Novum Organum
• John Bainbridge's translation of Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus
• Standard Welsh Bible, translated by Bishop William Morgan, Richard Parry and John Davies (Mallwyd).

[edit] New drama

• Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - Philaster (printed)
• Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger - The Virgin Martyr
• John Fletcher - The Laws of Candy

[edit] Births

• March 10 - Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder, philologist and theologian (died1667) (died 1681)
• July 20 - Nikolaes Heinsius, poet and scholar
• October 31 - John Evelyn, diarist (d. 1706)
• November 10 - Ninon de l'Enclos, author and patron of the arts (d. 1705)
• date unknown - Alexander Brome, poet (d. 1666)
• date unknown - Lucy Hutchinson, biographer (d. 1681)
• date unknown - Marchamont Needham, journalist and pamphleteer (d. 1678)
• probable - Melchisédech Thévenot, polymath (died 1692)

[edit] Deaths

• February 1 - Mario di Calasio, author of a Hebrew concordance (born 1550)
• February 19 - Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b. 1547)
• March 1 - Thomas Campion, poet and composer (b. 1567)
• date unknown - Richard Carew, author and translator (born 1555)
• date unknown - Nathaniel Field, dramatist (born 1587)