1656 in literature - Definition

See also: 1655 in literature, other events of 1656, 1657 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

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

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

Births

• September 14 - Thomas Baker, antiquarian author
• exact date unknown - Charles Davenant, economist, son of Sir William Davenant
• exact date unknown - Jean Galbert de Campistron, dramatist

Deaths

• September 8 - Bishop Joseph Hall, satirist
• October 3 - Myles Standish, American colonist, best known through the Longfellow poem