- 1669
Year 1669 (MDCLXIX) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or acommon year starting on Friday of the 10-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1669
January - June
*March 11 -Mount Etna erupts, destroying the town ofNicolosi and killing 20,000 people.
*May 31 -Samuel Pepys stops writing his diary.
*June 22 -Roux de Marsilly , accused of plotting the assassination of KingLouis XIV of France , is publicly tortured inParis .
*June 25 -Francis of Vendome, Duke of Beaufort , disappears during a battle in theSiege of Candia inCrete .July - December
*July - TheHanseatic League , after 400 years of operation, holds its last official meeting.
*September 6 -Francesco Morosini , "capitano generale" of the Venetian forces in theSiege of Candia , surrenders to the Ottomans.
*September 23 - Leopold IHabsburg grants the status and privileges of auniversity to the JesuitAcademy inZagreb , the precursor to the modernUniversity of Zagreb .Undated
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Okaya & Co., Ltd. , is founded inNagoya ,Japan .
* TheMogul EmperorAurangzeb destroys severalHindu temples and bans the whole religion, so Hindus rebel.
*Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin.
* Famine inBengal kills 3 million people.
*Phosphorus is discovered byHennig Brand .
* The Chinese herbal medicine companyTongrentang , or 同仁堂 in Chinese, is established.
* Turkish units burn the eastern part ofKolárovo .
* ChineseKangxi Emperor allows coastal residents deported in1662 to return home.
*Jan Swammerdam publishes his "Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens", a groundbreaking work inmicroscopy as well asentomology Births
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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 ofPeter I of Russia (d.1731 )
*August 27 -Anne Marie of Orléans , Queen of Savoy 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" -Jiang Tingxi , Chinese painter (d.1732 )
*"probable" -Peter King, 1st Baron King , Lord Chancellor of England (d.1734 )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 ofCharles 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 )
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