1670 in literature

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The year 1670 in literature involved some significant events.

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The philosophical arguments of John Locke inspire the formation of the Board of Trade in London (an unusually direct example of practical consequences of philosophical ideas).

Charles Cotton - Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque
Fulke Greville - The Remains of Sir Fulke Greville Lord Brooke
Honcho Tsugan (Japanese classic text)
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
Gilles Ménage - Dictionnaire etymologique (2nd edition)
Blaise Pascal - Pensées (posthumously published)
William Penn - The Great Cause of Liberty of Conscience
John Ray - English Proverbs
Thomas Tenison - The Creed of Mr. Hobbes Examined
Izaak Walton - Life of George Herbert
Leonard Willan - The Exact Politician, or Complete Statesman

Aphra Behn - The Forced Marriage
Thomas Betterton - The Amorous Widow, or the Wanton Wife (adapted from Molière)
John Caryll - Sir Salomon, or the Cautious Coxcomb
John Dryden - The Conquest of Granada
Molière - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Jean Racine - Bérénice
Thomas Shadwell - The Humorists

January 24 - William Congreve, dramatist (died 1729)
November 30 - John Toland, controversial author (died 1722)
December - Jean-Baptiste Dubos, historian (died 1742)
date unknown
- Laurence Echard, historian (died 1730)
- Bernard de Mandeville, satirist and philosopher (died 1733)