1669

Years: 1666 1667 1668 - 1669 - 1670 1671 1672

Decades: 1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1669 by topic: Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

Events

• March 11 - Mount Etna erupts - the eruption destroys the town of Nicolasi and kills 20.000
• June 22 - Roux de Marsilly publicly tortured to death in Paris accused of plotting to assassination of the Louis XIV
• June 25 - Francois de Vendome, Duke of Beaufort, disappears during a battle in a siege of Candia in Crete
• 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

• Samuel Pepys stops writing his diary.
• The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and banned the whole religion, so Hindus rebel.
• Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin
• Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people
• The Hanseatic League, formed 400 years ago, holds its final meeting
• Ottoman Turks take Candia, the Venetians lose Crete
• Francois de Beaufort, grandson of Henry IV of France, goes missing at Candia, presumed dead
• The Chinese herbal medicine company Tongrentang, or 同仁堂 in Chinese, is established.

Births

• February 2 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (d. 1732)
• May 26 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)
• August 24 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)

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, 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

Publications

• Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens by Jan Swammerdam, groundbreaking work in Microscopy as well as Entomology
• Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch by Hans von Grimmelshausen, the first major German Novel
• Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
• Tartuffe by Molière
• Britannicus by Jean Racine