1671 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1671.
Events
February - Nell Gwyn retires from the stage and moves into a brick townhouse at 79 Pall Mall, London.
November 9 - The Duke's Company open their new venue, the Dorset Garden Theatre.
Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières is awarded the first prize given for poetry by the Académie française.
Publication of Philosophus Autodidactus, the first Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's 12th century tale Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, prepared by Edward Pococke before 1660.
New books
Edward Bagshaw (attr.) - The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor Powell
Johann Ferdinand Hertodt - Crocologia
James Janeway - A Token for Children, Part 1
John Josselyn - New England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country (London)
Gottfried Leibniz - Hypothesis Physica Nova (`New Physical Hypothesis')
Arnoldus Montanus - De nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld of Beschryving van America (The Unknown New World or Description of the Continent America)
