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EVENTS

John Dryden converts to Roman Catholicism .

NEW BOOKS

Thomas Sydenham - ''Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu''

NEW DRAMA

Aphra Behn & John Blow - ''The Lucky Chance''

POETRY

Anne Killigrew - ''Poems'' (posthumously published)

BIRTHS

January 17 - Archibald Bower

August 12 - John Balguy

DEATHS

June 23 - Sir William Coventry , statesman and author

August 13 - Louis Maimbourg , historian

''date unknown'' - John Playford , publisher