* Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.

Two polemical works thought to be his-A Reply to the Reverend Dean of St. Paul's Reflections on the Rector of Sutton, & c. ( 1681 ) and The Rector of Sutton Committed with the Dean of St. Paul's, or, A Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet's Irenicum ( 1680 )-have also been attributed to the Nottingham Presbyterian John Barret.

* probable – John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes ( d. 1681 )

) Newton's reawakening interest in astronomy received further stimulus by the appearance of a comet in the winter of 1680 / 1681, on which he corresponded with John Flamsteed.

The area that became Lancaster County was part of William Penn's 1681 charter, and John Kennerly received the first recorded deed from Penn in 1691.

Supporters of Lancaster's founder, John Prescott ( 1604 – 1681 ), wished to name the new settlement Prescottville, but the Massachusetts General Court considered such a request from a common freeman presumptuous, given that at that time, not even a governor had held the honor of naming a town after himself.

Other artists who were commissioned to record the appearance of the gardens were England's first landscape painter George Lambert ( 1700 – 1765 ), the French painter Jacques Rigaud ( 1681 – 1754 ) and the cartographer John Rocque ( 1709 – 1762 ) who produced an engraved survey of Chiswick in 1736 showing the Villa and many of its garden buildings.

It was published over the years of the Popish Plot ( 1678 – 1681 ) and ten years before the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and it shows the influence of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments.

Evidence for the first adaptation of 2 Henry VI is found during the Restoration, when, in 1681, John Crowne created a two part play entitled Henry the Sixth, The First Part and The Misery of Civil War.

Evidence for the first adaptation of 3 Henry VI is found during the Restoration, when, in 1681, John Crowne created a two part play entitled Henry the Sixth, The First Part and The Misery of Civil War.

In 1747 he wrote an article for the Gentleman's Magazine suggesting that John Milton's Paradise Lost was largely a plagiarism from the Adamus Exul ( 1601 ) of Hugo Grotius, the Sarcotis ( 1654 ) of Jacob Masen ( Masenius, 1606 – 1681 ), and the Poemata Sacra ( 1633 ) of Andrew Ramsay ( 1574 – 1659 ).

In his 1681 chart the English captain John Daniel marked an island as Maiden's Isle, possibly referring to Rottnest.

The Effingham branch of the Howard family, including the Earl of Nottingham who as Lord High Admiral commanded the force which defeated the Spanish Armada, lived there until their heirs sold it to the wealthy London brewer, John Parsons in 1681.

Lady Mary Rich, daughter of the first Earl of Holland, married Sir John Campbell, 5th Baronet, who was created Earl of Breadalbane and Holland in 1681.

John Robartes ' eldest son, Robert, was ambassador to Denmark in 1681, and died there in February 1682.

* 1681 / 82 Robert Green John Malin

* John Morley Trevor ( the elder ) ( 1681 – 1719 ), grandson of the Secretary of State for the Northern Department, MP for Lewes and Sussex

Lady Mary Rich, daughter of the first Earl of Holland, married Sir John Campbell, 5th Baronet, who was created Earl of Breadalbane and Holland in the Peerage of Scotland in 1681.

The first record of the name was a 1681 grant to the sons of Sir John Coleton, one of the Lords Proprietary of South Carolina.

* John Leslie, 7th Earl of Rothes ( c. 1630 – 1681 )

* John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes ( c. 1630 – 1681 )

* John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland ( 1633 – 1717 ) ( resigned 1681 )

In 1681 he was appointed the official printer of the colony ; one of the first works he published was John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

Located nearby is the more conventional Church of St. John the Baptist ( 1681 ).

But as late as the seventeenth century should be mentioned Raffaello Bonherba ( d. 1681 ) who wrote Disputationes totius philosophiæ … in quibus omnes philosophicæ inter D. Thomam et Scotum controversiæ principaliter cum doctrinâ nostri Ægidii Columnæ illustrantur ( Palermo, 1645, 1671 ); and Augustino Arpe ( d. 1704 ) who wrote Summa totius theologiæ Ægidii Columnæ ( Bologna, 1701, and Genoa, 1704 ).

Castlehaven wrote his memoirs in 1681 in response to the hysteria of the Popish Plot.

In 1681, Filippo Bonanni wrote the first book ever published that was solely about seashells, the shells of marine mollusks.

A Frenchman, who was held captive in Morocco from 1670 to 1681, wrote: " In Fez and in Morocco is, Marrakesh, the Jews are separated from the inhabitants, having their own quarters set apart, surrounded by walls of which the gates are guarded by men appointed by the King ...

He furnished a preface to Whitelocke's Memorials of English Affairs ( 1682 ), and wrote in 1681 A General Draught and Prospect of the Government of Europe, reprinted in 1689 and 1714 as Of the Antiquity, Power, and Decay of Parliaments, where, ignorant of his future dignity, the critic had the misfortune to observe, " You are not to expect truth from an historiographer royal.

* In addition to his magnum opus, the Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu for which he wrote 6 volumes, as Jesuit historiographer Bartoli produced 5 Jesuit Lives: Vincenzo Caraffa 1651, Robert Bellarmine 1678, Stanislas Kostka 1678, Francis Borgia 1681, and his science teacher Niccolo Zucchi 1682

The Rover premiered 1677 to such great success that Behn wrote a sequel that was produced in 1681.

During the voyage Knox wrote the manuscript of An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, an account of his experiences on Ceylon, which was published in 1681.

In 1681 Anglesey wrote A Letter from a Person of Honour in the Country, as a rejoinder to the Earl of Castlehaven, who had published memoirs on the Irish rebellion defending the action of the Irish and the Roman Catholics.

In 1681, at the time when the Popish Plot scare was ebbing out, he wrote a single folio sheet, ‘ A new Apparition of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's Ghost to the E. of D —— in the Tower ;’ the printer was obliged to make a public apology for the reflections on the Earl of Danby which it contained.

His son, Johann Jakob Hottinger ( 1652 – 1735 ), who became professor of theology at Zürich in 1698, was the author of a work against Roman Catholicism, Helvetische Kirchengeschichte ( 4 vols, 1698 – 1729 ); and his grandson, Johann Heinrich Hottinger ( 1681 – 1750 ), who in 1721 was appointed professor of theology at Heidelberg, wrote a work on dogmatics, Typus doctrinae christianae ( 1714 ).

Sherman wrote his will on 30 July 1681, and it was proved on 22 March 1687.

A faulty edition of the Histoire critique had previously been published at Amsterdam by Daniel Elzevir, based on a manuscript transcription of one of the copies of the original work had been sent to England ; and from which a Latin translation ( Historia critica Veteris Testamenti, 1681, by Noël Aubert de Versé ) and an English translation ( Critical History of the Old Testament, London, 1682 ) were made.

While it is not known where he received his rudimentary music training, he sang at a church in Rome from 1676 to 1677 and at the Milan cathedral from 1681 until 1685, when he was dismissed for “ misconduct .” Thereafter, he made his one recorded appearance in opera at Reggio nell ’ Emilia in 1687 ( in Varischino ’ s Odoacre ) and was based for a time in Genoa.

Plantard revised his Priory of Sion story, claiming the order was founded on 17 January 1681 in Rennes-le-Château, based upon documents discovered in Barcelona, relating to a secret involving the mystical power of ley lines and sunrise lines, and Rocco Negro ( Black Rock ), a promontory near Rennes-le-Château where he owned substantial property.

The character of Amnon in John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is thought to be based on him.

In October 1681 Lord Manchester decided to go abroad because he had become too closely involved with cabalistic men in Northamptonshire.