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EVENTS

Samuel Pepys records details of the Great Fire Of London in his diary.

Aphra Behn goes to Antwerp to work as a government spy.

NEW BOOKS

''De Arte Combinatoria ('On the Art of Combination')'' - Gottfried Leibniz

''De principiis et ratiocinatione geometrarum'' - Thomas Hobbes

'' Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners '' - John Bunyan

''Le Misanthrope'' - Molière

''Satires du Sieur D....'' - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

BIRTHS

August 13 - William Wotton

''exact date unknown'' - Mary Astell , the "first British feminist"

''exact date unknown'' - Josiah Burchett , clerk to Samuel Pepys

''probable'' - John Harris , encyclopaedist

DEATHS

June 30 - Alexander Brome , poet

October 29 - James Shirley