Thomas Middleton is appointed chronologer of the City of London.[1]

September 6

The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations by Henry Ainsworth is the only book taken to New England by the Pilgrim Fathers.[2][3]

December 16

unknown dates

"The Water Poet" publishes The Praise of Hemp-Seed; with The Voyage of Mr. Roger Bird and the Writer hereof, in a Boat of browne-Paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent. As also, a Farewell to the matchlesse deceased Mr. Thomas Coriat in London, including the first mention in print of the deaths of Shakespeare and Francis Beaumont in 1616.

John Taylor

The first near-complete English-language translation of 's The Decameron, anonymous but attributed to John Florio and based on later French and Italian editions, is published by Isaac Jaggard in London.[4]

Boccaccio

The second version of appears.

The Ballad of Chevy Chase

by Bartolomé de las Casas and Origin and Progress of the Disturbances in the Netherlands by Johannes Gysius are republished in the Netherlands.[5]

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

De curiositatis pernicie syntagma

Johann Valentin Andreae

Novum Organum

Francis Bacon

's translation of Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus

John Bainbridge

Jacob Boehme

Hortus Palatinus

Salomon de Caus

translated by Thomas SheltonDon Quixote (Second Part)

Miguel de Cervantes

Examen errorum Photinianorum

Nicolaus Hunnius

'Kinde Kit (of Kingstone)' – Westward for Smelts, or, The Water-man's fare of mad-merry western wenches

Septima Philosophica

Michael Maier

Feng Menglong

Illustrious Words to Instruct the World

Bishop , revised by Bishop Richard Parry and John Davies (Mallwyd)Y Bibl Cyssegr-lan (Bible translation into Welsh)

William Morgan

The Night-raven (i. e. Nachtkrapp, a story to scare children)

Samuel Rowlands

Lucy Hutchinson, English biographer and translator (died 1681)

January 29

Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder, Dutch poet and scholar (died 1681)

July 20

(bapt.)Marchamont Nedham, English journalist and pamphleteer (died 1678)

August 21

John Evelyn, English diarist (died 1706)

October 31

Ninon de l'Enclos, French author and patron of the arts (died 1705)

November 10

unknown dates

Alexander Brome

probable

Mary Forster

Mario di Calasio, Italian author of Hebrew concordance (born 1550)

February 1

Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (born 1547)

February 19

March 1

[7]

Richard Carew, English author and translator (born 1555)

November 6

Unknown date – , Spanish Benedictine historian (born 1553)

Prudencio de Sandoval