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1620 in literature
List of years in literature
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1614
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1615
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1616
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1617
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1618
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1619
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1620
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1621
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1622
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1623
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1624
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1625
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1626
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1627
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1628
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1629
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1630
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1617
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1620
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1621
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1622
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1623
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The year
1620 in literature
involved some significant events.
Contents
1
Events
2
New books
3
New drama
4
Births
5
Deaths
Events
The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations
by
Henry Ainsworth
is the only book brought to New England by the pilgrim settlers.
Thomas Middleton
is appointed chronologer of the City of London.
Appearance of the second version of
The Ballad of Chevy Chase
.
New books
Francis Bacon
-
Novum Organum
John Bainbridge
's translation of Ptolemy's
De Planetarum Hypothesibus
Standard Welsh Bible, translated by Bishop
William Morgan
,
Richard Parry
and
John Davies (Mallwyd)
.
Salomon de Caus
-
Hortus Palatinus
Thomas Rowlands -
The Night Raven
New drama
Anonymous (
Thomas Heywood
?) -
Swetnam the Woman-Hater
published
Francis Beaumont
and
John Fletcher
-
Philaster
published
Thomas Dekker
and
Philip Massinger
-
The Virgin Martyr
Ben Jonson
-
News from the New World Discovered in the Moon
(
masque
)
-
Pan's Anniversary
(masque)
Thomas Middleton
&
William Rowley
-
The World Tossed at Tennis
(masque)
Births
March 10
-
Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder
, philologist and theologian (died
1667
) (died
1681
)
July 20
-
Nikolaes Heinsius
, poet and scholar
October 31
-
John Evelyn
, diarist (d. 1706)
November 10
-
Ninon de l'Enclos
, author and patron of the arts (d. 1705)
date unknown
-
Alexander Brome
, poet (d. 1666)
date unknown
-
Lucy Hutchinson
, biographer (d. 1681)
date unknown
-
Marchamont Needham
, journalist and pamphleteer (d. 1678)
probable
-
Melchisédech Thévenot
, polymath (died
1692
)
Deaths
February 1
-
Mario di Calasio
, author of a Hebrew concordance (born
1550
)
February 19
-
Roemer Visscher
, Dutch writer (b. 1547)
March 1
-
Thomas Campion
, poet and composer (b. 1567)
date unknown
-
Richard Carew
, author and translator (born
1555
)
date unknown
-
Nathaniel Field
, dramatist (born
1587
)
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