1685 in literature
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See also: 1684 in literature, other events of 1685, 1686 in literature, list of years in literature.
Contents
Events
- Antoine Furetière is expelled from the French Academy.
New books
- Histoire des Os (Description of the Bones) by Scipion Abeille
Births
- January 9 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch critic
- March 12 - George Berkeley
- June 30 - John Gay, poet and dramatist
Deaths
- April - Thomas Otway, dramatist
- April 29 - Luc d'Achéry, collector of medieval manuscripts
- June 17 - Andrew Allam, historian
- date unknown - Anne Killigrew, poet
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