1666 in literature

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The year 1666 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

• June 4 – Molière's comedy The Misanthrope is premièred at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris by the King's Players.
• September 2 – Samuel Pepys begins recording details of the Great Fire of London in his diary.
• Aphra Behn goes to Antwerp to work as a government spy.

New books

• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux – Satires du Sieur D....
• John Bunyan – Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
• Thomas Hobbes – De principiis et ratiocinatione geometrarum
• Gottfried Leibniz – De Arte Combinatoria ('On the Art of Combination')

New drama

• James Howard – The English Monsieur
• Molière – Le Misanthrope

Births

• March 21 – Ogyū Sorai, Japanese Confucian philosopher (died 1728)
• July 10 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born theologian (died 1711)
• August 13
  • René Massuet, French patrologist (died 1716)
  • William Wotton, British scholar (died 1727)
• November 12 - Mary Astell, the "first British feminist" (died 1731)
• date unknown
  • Josiah Burchett, clerk to Samuel Pepys (died 1746)
  • Mary Pix, English novelist and dramatist (died 1709)
• probable – John Harris, encyclopaedist (died 1719)

Deaths

• June 30 – Alexander Brome, poet (born 1620)
• August 24 – Dom Francisco Manuel de Mello, Portuguese writer (born 1608)
• October 29 – James Shirley (born 1596)
• November – Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (born c. 1610)
• date unknown
  • Gysbert Japiks, Frisian writer (born 1603)
  • Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopaedist (born 1587)