1716 in the literature

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January 2 - an official decree of King Philip V was issued on the establishment of the National Library of Spain .
April 5 - the famous polemic between the translator of Homeric texts Anna Dacier and the poet and playwright Antoine Udar de Lamotte ended .
May - Voltaire was exiled to Tulle for the libel for the regent of France, Philip II of Orleans .
July 7 - playwright Philip Detouch completed the creation of a one-act comedy in prose “Triple Marriage”.

Mercurius Politicus is a book by Daniel Defoe .
“Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London” - a poem by John Gay .
Drummer is a Joseph Addison comic play.
Christian Morality is a book by Thomas Brown .
Physica divina is a book by Andreas Rüdiger .
"El dómine Lucas" is the drama of José Cañizares .
The compilation of the Kangxi Dictionary , a dictionary of the Chinese language , which was considered the standard guide throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, was completed.
“Letters from the Turkish Embassy” - Mary Montague's memoirs.

March 6 - Per Kalm , Finnish-Swedish natural scientist, traveler, author of the world-famous book dedicated to the expedition to North America (he died in 1779 ).
December 25 - Johann Jacob Reiske , German writer (died in 1774 ).
December 26 - Thomas Gray , an English sentimentalist poet (died in 1771 ).
December 26 - Jean-Francois de Saint-Lambert , French poet (died in 1803 ).
Jean-Jacques Barthelemy , French writer, founder of the genre of "archaeological novel" (died in 1795 ).
Yosa Buson , Japanese poet and writer (died in 1783 ).
Yuan Mei , Chinese poet, scientist and writer (died in 1797 ).

January 1 - William Wicherley , English playwright (born 1640 ).
February 19 - Dorothea Engelbretsdatter , the first poet and writer of Norway (born in 1634 ).
November 2 - Engelbert Kempfer , a German traveler, author of books about his travels, including, “The newest states of Kazan, Astrakhan, Georgia and many others, the tsar, the Sultan and the Shah paid tribute and subservient ...” (born in 1651 ).
November 14 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , German scholarly creator of the German philosophical and scientific vocabulary, author of a number of essays and treatises (born in 1646 ).