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The year 1610 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- Thomas Bodley makes an agreement with the Stationers' Company of London to put a copy of every book registered with them into his new Bodleian.
New books
- Jean Beguin - Tyrocinium Chymicum
- Fourth edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
- John Healey - his translation of St. Augustine's The City of God
- Sylvester Jourdan - A Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divels
- Richard Rich - News from Virginia: the Lost Flock Triumphant
New drama
- Samuel Daniel - Tethys Festival or the Queenes Wake (masque)
- John Fletcher - The Faithful Shepherdess
- Ben Jonson - The Alchemist; The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers
- John Marston - Histriomastix published
- John Mason - The Turk published
Poetry
- Giles Fletcher the younger - Christ's Victory and Triumph
Births
- January - Sir Sidney Godolphin, English poet (died 1643)
- July - Paul Scarron, poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1660)
- December 18 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (died 1688)
- date unknown
- Richard Bulstrode, English author and soldier (died 1711)
- Edmund Chilmead, English writer and translator (died 1654)
- Reinhold Curicke, historian of the Hanseatic League (died 1667)
- Li Yu, controversial comic writer (died 1680)
- Louis Maimbourg, historian (died 1686)
- François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (died 1683)
- Jan Vos, Dutch poet and dramatist (died 1667)
- probable - Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (died 1666)
Deaths
- July - Richard Knolles, historian (born c1545)
- date unknown
- Anne Bacon, English translator (born c. 1528)
- Juan de la Cueva, poet and dramatist (born 1550)
- probable
- Peter Bales, inventor of shorthand (born 1547)
- Alexander Montgomerie, poet (born c1545)
- Philip Stubbs, pamphleteer (born c1555)
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