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The year 1686 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- John Dryden converts to Roman Catholicism.
New books
- John Bunyan - A Book for Boys and Girls, or, Country Rhymes for Children
- Gottfried Leibniz - Brevis Demonstratio Erroris Memorabilis Cartesii et Aliorum Circa Legem Naturae ("A Brief Demonstration of the Memorable Error of Descartes and Others About the Law of Nature")
- Discours de Métaphysique
- Bernard de Fontenelle - Entrétiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes
- L'Histoire des Oracles
- Ihara Saikaku - Twenty Cases of Unfilial Children
- The Woman Who Spent Her Life in Love
- Thomas Sydenham - Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu
New drama
- Aphra Behn & John Blow - The Lucky Chance
- Thomas d'Urfey - The Banditti, or a Lady's Distress
- Thomas Jevon - The Devil of a Wife
Poetry
- Sarah Fyge (Egerton) - The Female Advocate
- Anne Killigrew - Poems (posthumously published)
Births
- January 17 - Archibald Bower (died 1766)
- August 12 - John Balguy (died 1748)
Deaths
- January 31 - Jean Mairet, dramatist (born 1604)
- February 25 - Abraham Calovius, Lutheran theologian (born 1612)
- June 23 - Sir William Coventry, statesman and author (born c.1628)
- August 13 - Louis Maimbourg, historian (born 1610)
- November 28 - Nicolas Letourneux, ascetic writer (born 1640)
- date unknown - John Playford, publisher (born 1623)
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