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.
• 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.
• Publication of Philosophus Autodidactus, the first Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's 12th century tale Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, prepared by Edward Pococke before 1660.

New books

Prose

• Edward Bagshaw (attr.) - The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor Powell
• 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')
• 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
• Marie-Catherine de Villedieu - Les Amours des Grands Hommes
• Melchor Fuster - Misceláneas predicables políticas y morales

Children

• James Janeway - A Token for Children (two parts)

Drama

• Aphra Behn - The Amorous Prince (adapted from Robert Davenport's The City Nightcap)
• Pierre Corneille - Tite et Bérénice
• John Crowne - Juliana, or the Princess of Poland
• John Dryden - The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery
• Edward Howard - The Six Days' Adventure, or the New Utopia
• Edward Ravenscroft - Mamamouchi
• Elkanah Settle - Cambyses
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham & others - The Rehearsal
• William Wycherley - Love in a Wood
• Pedro Calderon de la Barca - El santo rey don Fernando

Poetry

• John Milton - Samson Agonistes

Births

• April 6 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French dramatist and poet (died 1741)
• June 11 – Colley Cibber, English playwright and Poet Laureate (died 1757)
• September 7 – Antoine Danchet, French dramatist and poet (died 1748)
• Unknown date – Gustaf Adlerfelt, Swedish historian (died 1709)

Deaths

• 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)