1669 in literature

Events

• May 31 – Samuel Pepys makes the last entry in his diary.
• unknown dates
• *Frances Boothby's tragicomedy Marcelia, or, The Treacherous Friend is performed by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, the first play by a woman to be produced in London.
• *The final section of Parthenissa, the prose romance by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, is published. Earlier portions of the work have appeared in 1651 and 1654–1656.

  New books

Prose

• Anonymous – Letters of a Portuguese Nun
• Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen – Simplicius Simplicissimus
• Blaise Pascal – Pensees
• William Penn – No Cross, No Crown
• Jan Swammerdam – Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens
• John Wagstaffe – The Question of Witchcraft Debated

  Drama

• Anonymous – The Imperial Tragedy
• John Dryden – Tyrannic Love
• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
• *Guzman
• *Mr. Anthony
• John Lacy – The Dumb Lady
• Jean Racine – Britannicus

  Births

• December 16 – Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac de Mailla, French missionary and translator in China
• unknown dates
• *Nicholas Blundell, English diarist
• *Lady Lucy Herbert, English devotional writer
• *Jiang Tingxi, Chinese encyclopedist
• probable – Susanna Centlivre, English poet and actress

  Deaths

• February 3 – Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet and dramatist
• March 19 – John Denham, Irish poet
• July 10 or 11 – Robert Stapylton, English dramatist and courtier
• September 30 – Henry King, English poet and bishop
• October 8 – Jane Cavendish, English poet and playwright
• December 16 – Nathaniel Fiennes, English pamphleteer, soldier and politician
• December 24 – Henry Foulis, English theologian and controversialist