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The year '1695 in literature' involved some significant events.

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Events

New books

New drama

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Antoine Lemaistre and his brother Louis Isaac Lemaistre complete their translation of the Bible into the French language (the "Port-Royal version")

★ After twelve years of de facto theatrical monopoly in London, the senior actors of the mismanaged United Company break away to form a rival cooperative company, led by Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle. The new company gets off to a brilliant start with the première of William Congreve's comedy ''Love for Love''.

New books

★ Joseph Addison - ''A Poem to His Majesty''

★ Richard Blackmore - ''Prince Arthur''

★ Charles Blount - ''Miscellaneous Works'' (ed. Charles Gildon)

★ Gilbert Burnet - ''An Essay on the Memory of the Late Queen'' (see 1694 in literature, as many memorials were written to Mary II of England)

★ Colley Cibber - ''A Poem on the Death of our Late Sovereign Lady, Queen Mary''

★ Jeremy Collier - ''Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects: The second part''

★ William Congreve - ''The Mourning Muse of Alexas: A pastoral'' (on Mary II)

★ John Dennis - ''The Court of Death''

★ John Dryden - ''De Arte Graphica'' (trans. of Charles-Alphonse du Fresnoy)

★ Laurence Echard - ''The Roman Hisotry'' (vol. I)

★ William Laud - ''The History of the Troubles and Tryal of William Laud''

★ John Locke - ''Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money''

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★ - ''The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures''

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★ - ''A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity'' (reply to John Edwards)

★ John Milton - ''The Poetical Works of Mr John Milton'' (ed. Patrick Hume)

★ John Norris - ''Letters Concerning the Love of God'' (letters to Mary Astell)

★ Sir William Petty - ''Quantulumcunque Concerning Money'' (published posthumously)

★ John Phillips - ''A Reflection on Our Modern Poetry''

★ Matthew Prior - ''An English Ballad: In answer to Mr Despreaux's Pindarique ode on the taking of Namure''

★ Robert South - ''Tritheism'' (vs. William Sherlock)

★ Richard Steele - ''The Procession: A poem on Her Majesties funeral''

★ Sir William Temple - ''An Introduction to the History of England''

★ Ned Ward - ''Female Policy Detected; or, The Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open''

New drama

★ Catherine Trotter Cockburn - ''Agnes de Castro''

★ William Congreve - ''Love for Love''

★ Robert Gould - ''The Rival Sisters''

★ Charles Hopkins - ''Pyrrhus King of Epirus: A tragedy''

★ Edward Ravenscroft - ''The Canterbury Guests; or, A Bargain Broken: A comedy''

★ Elkanah Settle - ''Philaster; or, Love Lies A-Bleeding: A tragi-comedy''

Births

★ April 8 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (died 1723)

★ Francis Hutcheson

Deaths

★ April 13 - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (born 1621)

★ November 28 - Anthony Wood (born 1632)

★ Henry Purcell

★ Sir William Killigrew

★ Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple

★ Henry Vaughan, "Cavalier" poet