1679 in literature

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This article lists some of the most significant events of the year 1679 in literature.

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John Locke returns to England from France.
Étienne Baluze becomes almoner to King Louis XIV of France.
Thomas Otway returns from military service in the Netherlands.
In June, Nathaniel Lee's play The Massacre at Paris (about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, as was Marlowe's play of the same title) was suppressed by the Stuart regime as anti-French. (The French were English allies at the time.)

Aphra Behn - The Feigned Courtesans
- The Young King
John Crowne - The Ambitious Statesman, or the Loyal Favourite
John Dryden - Oedipus
- Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late (adapted from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida)
Nathaniel Lee - Caesar Borgia
- The Massacre at Paris
Thomas Otway - The History and Fall of Caius Marius
Jacques Pradon - La Troade
Thomas Shadwell - The Woman Captain

January 24 - Christian Wolff (philosopher) (died 1745)
August 16 - Catherine Trotter Cockburn, novelist, dramatist and philosopher (died 1749)
September 11 - Thomas Parnell, clergyman and poet (died 1718)
September 24 - Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, soldier and poet (died 1750)
September 26 - Johann Gottlob Carpzov, Biblical scholar (died 1767)
October 26 - Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen, printer (died c. 1750)
date unknown
- Abel Evans, poet (died 1737)
- Charles Johnson, dramatist (died 1748)
- Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (died 1734)
probable - Penelope Aubin, novelist and translator (died c. 1731)