1672 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1671 in literature, other events of 1672, 1673 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Marriage a la Mode by John Dryden
• The Rehearsal (play) by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (published)

Births

• January 18 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte
• May 1 - Joseph Addison
• August 2 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

Deaths

• September 12 - Tanneguy Lefebvre
• September 16 - Anne Bradstreet, first American female author to be published
• December 7 - Richard Bellingham, later a character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter