1699

Year 1699 (MDCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, or a common year starting on Sunday( [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1699&country=20 Julian-1699] ) of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1699

* January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz: Venice, Poland and Austria sign a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire.
* February 4 - Three hundred fifty(350) rebellious Streltsi are executed in Moscow.
* March 4 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck, Germany.
* April 13 - The 10th Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh, creates the Khalsa.
* May 1 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville founds the first European settlement in the Mississippi River Valley, at Fort Maurepas (Ocean Springs, Mississippi).
* June 11 - England, France and the Netherlands agree on the Treaty of London (also known as the Second Partition Treaty of Spain).
* June 14 - Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
* July 6 - Pirate Capt. William Kidd is captured in Boston.
* September 22 - Citizens of Rotterdam strike over the high price of butter.
* November 22 - Treaty of Preobrasjensku: Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden.
* December 3 - Baron Jacob Hop is appointed as the treasurer-general of The Hague.
* December 20 - Peter the Great orders the Russian New Year changed from September 1 to January 1.

Undated

* William Dampier explores the northwest coast of Australia.

Births

* March 23 - John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777)
* March 25 - Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
* May 1 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
* May 13 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
* November 2 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
* November 25 - Pierre Subleyras, French painter (d. 1749)
* December 10 - King Christian VI of Denmark (d. 1746)
*"date unknown" - Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric (d. 1746)

Deaths

* January 21 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
* March 12 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
* April 21 - Jean Racine, French playwright (b. 1639)
* April 22 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (b. 1646)
* May 12 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
* May 15 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councillor (b. 1631)
* June 22 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
* September 26 - Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (b. 1618)
* August 25 - Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1646)
* November 29 - Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)