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| 1660 |
| | | On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his diary | |
|  | First page of Pepys's diary
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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| 1667 |
| | | French dramatist Jean Racine's first great success, Andromaque, finds tragic drama in a quadrangle of love | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Paradise Lost is published, earning its author John Milton just £10 | |
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| 1669 |
| | | Samuel Pepys ends his diary, after only writing it for nine years | |
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| 1673 |
| | | Molière falls fatally ill when acting in his own play Le Malade Imaginaire | |
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| c. 1677 |
| | | Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, dealing with God, the mind and the emotions, is published shortly after his death | |
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| 1678 |
| | | Part I of The Pilgrim's Progress, written during John Bunyan's two spells in Bedford Gaol, is published and is immediately popular | |
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| 1680 |
| | | John Bunyan publishes The Life and Death of Mr Badman, an allegory of a misspent life that is akin to a novel | |
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| 1688 |
| | | Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade | |
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| 1690 |
| | | John Locke publishes his Essay concerning Human Understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience | |
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