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The year 1650 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- Blaise Pascal's poor health forces him to retire from the study of mathematics.
- Parliament appoints a commission for the propagation and preaching of the gospel in Wales, advised by Vavasor Powell.
- Despite the official prohibition against stage plays, theatrical manager and promoter William Beeston finances repairs to the Cockpit Theatre and attempts to assemble and train a company of young actors. His effort is unsuccessful.
- Plagiarist Robert Baron publishes his Pocula Castalia, stealing mainly from the minor poems of John Milton issued in 1645.
New books
- Richard Flecknoe - The Idea of His Highness Oliver ...
- George Walker - Anglo-Tyrannus
New drama
- François le Métel de Boisrobert - La Jalouse d'elle-même
- Abraham Cowley - The Guardian
Poetry
- Anne Bradstreet - The Tenth Muse
- Henry Vaughan - Silex scintillans (part 1)
Births
- July - Charles Leslie, theologian (died 1722)
- September 23 - Bishop Jeremy Collier, theologian and theatre critic (died 1726)
- date unknown
- Madame d'Aulnoy, writer of fairy tales (died 1705)
- Carlo Alessandro Guidi, Italian lyric poet (died 1712)
- Henry Scougal, Scottish theologian (died 1678)
- probable - Richard Blackmore, epic poet (died 1729)
Deaths
- February 11 - René Descartes, philosopher (born 1596)
- April 22 - Stephanius, Danish royal historiographer (born 1599)
- June - Jean Rotrou, French poet and dramatist (born 1609)
- June 30 - Niccolo Cabeo, Jesuit philosopher (born 1586)
- August 25 - Richard Crashaw, poet (born c.1613)
- September 17 - Constantino Cajetan, Benedictine scholar and book collector (born 1560)
- October 25 - Franciscus Quaresmius, Milanese Franciscan writer (born 1583)
- November 13 - Thomas May, poet and historian (born 1595)
- December 28 - Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist and grammarian (born 1575)
- date unknown
- Anthony Ascham, political theorist (born c. 1614)
- İbrahim Peçevi, Ottoman historian (born 1572)
- Tukaram, Hindu poet
