1656 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• November 12 - John Milton marries Katherine Woodcock.
• Baruch Spinoza is excluded from the Jewish religious community.

[edit] New books

• Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon - Cyrano de Bergerac
• Kirchlzofsgedanken (lyrics) - Andreas Gryphius
• Nature's Pictures - Margaret Cavendish
• Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance - Thomas Hobbes
• Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung Der Muscowitischen und Persischen Reyse So durch gelegenheit einer Holsteinischen Gesandtschaft an den Russischen Zaar und König in Persien geschehen - Adam Olearius, German traveller

[edit] Births

• September 14 - Thomas Baker (antiquarian), antiquarian author (died 1746)
• date unknown - Charles Davenant, economist, son of Sir William Davenant (died 1714)
• date unknown - Jean Galbert de Campistron, dramatist (died 1723)

[edit] Deaths

• September 8 - Bishop Joseph Hall (English Bishop and satyrist), satirist (born 1574)
• October 3 - Myles Standish, American colonist, best known through the Longfellow poem (born c.1584)