1625 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1625.

Events

January 1 – The King's Men act Henry IV, Part 1 at Whitehall Palace.
March 27 – King James VI and I dies – he instigated and oversaw publication of the King James Bible.
October – Following the closure of the London theatres for most of the year, due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, the epidemic abates with the cooler weather and a new company is formed under royal patronage: Queen Henrietta's Men.
John Milton enters Christ's College, Cambridge.
Sir Richard Baker's Oxfordshire property is seized as a result of his debts.
Cyril Tourneur becomes secretary to the council of war and joins the catastrophic Cadiz expedition under Sir Edward Cecil.

May 25
- John Davies, Welsh translator into English (died 1693)
- Ann, Lady Fanshawe, English memoirist (died 1680)
June 23 – John Fell, English academic and bishop (died 1686)
August 20 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (died 1709)
Unknown date – François Bernier, French travel writer and physician (died 1688)

January 29 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (born 1562)
March 25 – Giambattista Marino, Italian epic poet (born 1569)
March 27 – King James VI of Scotland and I of England and Ireland, Scottish literary patron and essayist (born 1566)
June 1 – Honoré d'Urfé, French novelist and miscellanist (born 1568)
August 29 (burial) – John Fletcher, English dramatist (born 1579)
September – Thomas Lodge, English dramatist and physician (born c. 1558)
September 6 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (born 1579)
September 20 – Heinrich Meibom, German poet and historian (born 1555)
c. October – John Florio, English linguist and lexicographer (born 1553)
November 27 – John Cameron, Scottish theologian (born c. 1579)

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