1676 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1676.

Events

March 2 – George Etherege's play The Man of Mode is given its first performance, in London.<ref name="People's Chronology">Template:Cite book</ref>
May 22 – Samuel Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House.<ref>Template:Cite web Template:ODNBsub</ref>
December 11 – The first performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer is given in London.<ref name="People's Chronology"/>
December – The German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz arrives in Hanover to take up a post as "councillor" and librarian to Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Robert Barclay – Theses Theologiae
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
Charles Cotton – Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
Ann, Lady Fanshawe – Memoir (of her deceased courtier husband, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet)
Domingo Fernández Navarrete – Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China (An Account of the Empire of China, Historical, Political, Moral, and Religious)
Gabriel de Foigny – La Terre Australe connue (The Southern Land, Known)<ref>Geoffroy Atkinson, The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700, 1920 p. 36.</ref>
Thomas Tomkinson – Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism.
Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, 5th edition

June 21 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (died 1729)
July 4 – José de Cañizares, Spanish dramatist (died 1750)
October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar and monk (died 1764)
Unknown dates
- Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (died 1752)
- Samuel Bownas, English Quaker religious writer (died 1753)
- William Gwavas, English lawyer and writer in the Cornish language (died 1741)