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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1659.

Events[edit]

January 27 – The poet Andrew Marvell is elected a member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in England's Third Protectorate Parliament.
August – William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth's Cheshire uprising in favor of restoring the English Monarchy.
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- Méric Casaubon edits John Dee's journal of angel magic.
- The Icelandic pastor Jón Magnússon completes his Píslarsaga (Passion Saga, or Story of My Sufferings).

Richard Baxter – The Holy Commonwealth
Méric Casaubon (ed.) – A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and some spirits
Thomas Hobbes – De Homine
Christiaan Huygens – Systema Saturnium
Ninon de l'Enclos – La Coquette vengée (The Flirt Avenged)
Richard Lovelace – Lucasta (posthumous)
William Prynne – Parliamentary Writs (further parts in 1660, 1662 and 1664)
Johann Heinrich Rahn – Teutsche Algebra
Péter Révay – De monarchia et sacra corona regni hungariae centuriae septem
John Rushworth – Historical Collections of Private Passages of State... (also The Rushworth Papers)
Anna Maria van Schurman – The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? (English version of 1638 Latin original)
Jeremy Taylor – Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship

Anonymous – The London Chanticleers^[1]
Richard Brome – Five New Plays, including The English Moor, The Lovesick Court, The Weeding of Covent Garden, The New Academy, and The Queen and Concubine
Joan Leonardsz Blasius – De Edelmoedige Vijanden
Sir William Davenant – The History of Sir Francis Drake
John Day and Henry Chettle – The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (published six decades after its premiere)
Juan Bautista Diamante – El honrador de su padre
Richard Flecknoe – The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia
Molière – Les Précieuses ridicules
Walter Montague – The Shepherd's Paradise^[2]
Agustín Moreto – No puede ser...
James Shirley
- The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses
- Honoria and Mammon
Joost van den Vondel – Jephta

January 1 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian and archdeacon (died 1707)
March – Margrethe Lasson, Danish novelist (died 1738)
March 25 – John Asgill, English pamphleteer (died 1738)
March 26 – William Wollaston, English philosopher, classicist and cleric (died 1724)
April 29 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish poet and writer (died 1730)^[3]
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- Thomas Creech, English classicist and translator (died 1700)
- Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian poet (died 1708)

January 7 – Laurenz Forer, Swiss theologian and controversialist writing in Latin and German (born 1580)
January 31 – János Apáczai Csere, Hungarian linguist, mathematician and encyclopedist (born 1625)
February 4 – Francis Osborne, English essayist (born 1593)
April 15 – Simon Dach, German poet and hymnist (born 1605)
June 3 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (born 1619)^[4]
September 22 – Thomas Morton, English polemicist and bishop (born 1564)
October 27 – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, Italian poet and librettist (born 1598)

^ Robert Dodsley (1874). A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Reeves and Turner. p. 11.
^ Tiffany Stern (17 September 2009). Documents of Performance in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-1-139-48297-4.
^ Klasse, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Philosophisch-Historische (1854). Sitzungsberichte (in German). Rohrer. p. 563.
^ "Morgan Llwyd | Welsh author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.