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EVENTS

John Locke has the first abstract of his seminal Essay Concerning Human Understanding appear in Leclerc's Bibliotheque Universelle

Fourth (and illustrated) edition of John Milton 's '' Paradise Lost ''

First printing of John Bunyan 's '' Pilgrim's Progress ''

NEW BOOKS

The " Bucharest Bible " - ''Biblia de la Bucureşti'', first complete translation of the Bible into Romanian

Aphra Behn - ''Oroonoko, the Royal Slave''

NON-FICTION

David Abercromby - ''Ars explorandi medicas facultates plantarum ex solo sapore''

Etienne Baluze - ''Marca hispanica''

Henry More - ''Divine Dialogues''

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax - ''The Anatomy of an Equivalent''

BIRTHS

January 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian.

February 4 - Pierre De Marivaux , playwright (+ 1763 )

April 2 (baptised) - Lewis Theobald , Shakespearean editor (+ 1744 )

May 21 - Alexander Pope , poet (+ 1744 )

''date unknown'' - Laurence Eusden , poet (+ 1730)

''date unknown'' - John Morgan , Anglo-Welsh poet (+ 1733)

''date unknown'' - Charles Rivington , English publisher (+ 1742)

''probable'' - William Meston , poet (+ 1745)

DEATHS

March 15 - Peter Walsh , politician and historian

May 14 - Antoine Furetière , satirist

June 26 - Ralph Cudworth , English philosopher

August 31 - John Bunyan , author of '' Pilgrim's Progress ''

October 14 - Joachim Von Sandrart , art historian

November 16 - Bengt Gottfried Forselius , educational pioneer

November 26 - Philippe Quinault , French dramatist

''date unknown'' - François Bernier , doctor and travel writer

''date unknown'' - Thomas Flatman , poet and painter