1690 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Colley Cibber becomes an actor with the Drury Lane company.

[edit] New books

[edit] New drama

• Thomas Southerne - Sir Anthony Love

[edit] Poetry

• John Dryden
  • Amphitryon, or the Two Socias
  • Don Sebastian

[edit] Non-fiction

• Nicholas Barbon - A Discourse of Trade
• Pierre Bayle (attr.) - Avis important aux refugies
• Sir Thomas Browne - A Letter to a Friend ([published posthumously)
• Samuel Pepys - Memoires of the Navy

[edit] Births

• February 3 - Richard Rawlinson, collector of manuscripts and curiosities (died 1755)
• September 12 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (died 1775)

[edit] Deaths

• May 12 - John Rushworth, author of Historical Collections (born c.1612)
• October 3 - Robert Barclay, Quaker writer (born c.1648)
• date unknown - Franciscus Plante, poet (born 1613)