Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1630s  1640s  1650s  – 1660s –  1670s  1680s  1690s
Years:	1666 1667 1668 – 1669 – 1670 1671 1672

1669 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

1669 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1669 MDCLXIX
Ab urbe condita	2422
Armenian calendar	1118 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-175 – -174
Bengali calendar	1076
Berber calendar	2619
Buddhist calendar	2213
Burmese calendar	1031
Byzantine calendar	7177 – 7178
Chinese calendar	戊申年十一月廿九日 (4305/4365-11-29) — to — 己酉年十二月初九日 (4306/4366-12-9)
Coptic calendar	1385 – 1386
Ethiopian calendar	1661 – 1662
Hebrew calendar	5429 – 5430
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1724 – 1725
- Shaka Samvat	1591 – 1592
- Kali Yuga	4770 – 4771
Holocene calendar	11669
Iranian calendar	1047 – 1048
Islamic calendar	1079 – 1080
Japanese calendar	Kanbun 8 (寛文8年)
Korean calendar	4002
Thai solar calendar	2212
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Year 1669 (MDCLXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1669 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events of 1669

[edit] January–June

• March 11 – Mount Etna erupts, destroying the town of Nicolosi and killing 20,000 people.
• May 31 – Samuel Pepys stops writing his diary.
• June 22 – Roux de Marsilly, accused of plotting the assassination of King Louis XIV of France, is publicly tortured in Paris.
• June 25 – Francis of Vendome, Duke of Beaufort, disappears during a battle in the Siege of Candia in Crete.

[edit] July–December

• July – The Hanseatic League, after 400 years of operation, holds its last official meeting in Lübeck.
• September 6 – Francesco Morosini, capitano generale of the Venetian forces in the Siege of Candia, surrenders to the Ottomans.
• September 23 – Leopold I Habsburg grants the status and privileges of a university to the Jesuit Academy in Zagreb, the precursor to the modern University of Zagreb.
• Alejandro Pedro Tesero III invents the pinata.

[edit] Undated

• Okaya & Co., Ltd., is founded in Nagoya, Japan.
• The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and bans the whole religion, so Hindus rebel.
• Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin.
• Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people.
• Phosphorus is discovered by Hennig Brand.
• The Chinese herbal medicine company Tongrentang, or 同仁堂 in Chinese, is established.
• Turkish units burn the eastern part of Kolárovo.
• Chinese Kangxi Emperor allows coastal residents deported in 1662 to return home.
• Jan Swammerdam publishes his Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens, a groundbreaking work in microscopy as well as entomology

[edit] Births

• January – Susanna Wesley, mother of the Wesley brothers (d. 1742)
• April 3 – Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, French musician (d. 1782)
• May 26 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)
• July 30 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, first wife of Peter I of Russia (d. 1731)
• August 27 – Anne Marie d'Orléans, Queen of Sicily and Sardinia (d. 1728)
• August 29 – John Anstis, English herald (d. 1744)
• October 19 – Count Wirich Philipp von Daun, Austrian military leader (d. 1741)
• date unknown – Bullet, Jean-Baptiste, French writer (d. 1775)
• date unknown – Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter (d. 1732)
• probable – Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1734)

[edit] Deaths

• February 23 – Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600)
• March 10 – John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)
• May 14 – Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
• May 16 – Pietro da Cortona, Italian artist (b. 1596)
• June 25 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
• September 10 – Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
• October 4 – Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
• October 14 – Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)
• October 24 – William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
• November 4 – Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
• December 9 – Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
• December 16 – Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (b. c. 1608)

[edit] References