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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1643.

Events

May/June – René Descartes, having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.^[1]
June 16 – The Parliament of England issues the Licensing Order of 1643 to control the press – the action against which John Milton protests in his Areopagitica of the following year.
August 1 – The first of Milton's divorce tracts is published, anonymously and unlicensed.
unknown dates
- Cardinal Mazarin opens the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris to scholars.^[2]
- The medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius comes to light, in the possession of Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson.
- Miyamoto Musashi begins dictating The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho).
- Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, The City of the Sun , are published together in a volume titled Mundus Alter et Idem – the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together.

New books

Prose

Sir Thomas Browne – Religio Medici (first "authorized" edition, after two unauthorized in the previous year)
Sir Kenelm Digby – Observations Upon Religio Medici
Philip Hunton – A Treatise of Monarchie
John Milton – Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Roger Williams – A Key into the Language of America
Pedro Agerre (Axular) – Gero

Drama

Pierre Corneille
- Le Menteur
- Polyeucte
Sir William Davenant – The Unfortunate Lovers published
Claude de L'Estoile – La Belle Esclave (The Beautiful Slave)
Francisco de Quevedo
- Entremés de las sombras
- La mujer de Peribáñez

Poetry

Ramillete gracioso
Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant – Albion

Births

March 26 – Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist and priest (died 1680)
September 18 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish historian and bishop (died 1715)^[3]
November 1 – John Strype, English historian, biographer and cleric (died 1737)
November 16 – Jean Chardin, French travel writer (died 1713)
unknown date – Thomas Rymer, English Historiographer Royal (died 1713)

Deaths

February 9 – Sidney Godolphin, English poet (born 1610)
April 4 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (born 1583)
April 12 – Nicolaus Hunnius, German theologian (born 1585)
April 20 – Christoph Demantius, German poet and composer (born 1567)
November 29 – William Cartwright, English poet, dramatist and cleric (born 1611)
unknown dates
- Abraham Azulai, Moroccan-born Kabbalistic author (born c. 1570)
- Thomas Master, English poet, translator and cleric (born 1603)
- Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (born 1570)
probable
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (born c. 1590)
- Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (born 1610)

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References

↑ Daniel Garber; Professor of Philosophy Daniel Garber; Garber Daniel (2001). Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian Science. Cambridge University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-521-78973-8.
↑ Rita Benton (1983). Directory of Music Research Libraries: pt. 1. France, Finland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherland, Portugal, Sweden. Bärenreiter. p. 383. ISBN 978-3-7618-1482-6.
↑ T. E. S. Clarke; H. C. Foxcroft (2 April 2015). A Life of Gilbert Burnet. Cambridge University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-107-49501-2.

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[1] Daniel Garber; Professor of Philosophy Daniel Garber; Garber Daniel (2001). Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian Science. Cambridge University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-521-78973-8.

[2] Rita Benton (1983). Directory of Music Research Libraries: pt. 1. France, Finland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherland, Portugal, Sweden. Bärenreiter. p. 383. ISBN 978-3-7618-1482-6.

[3] T. E. S. Clarke; H. C. Foxcroft (2 April 2015). A Life of Gilbert Burnet. Cambridge University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-107-49501-2.

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