1669
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| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1669 MDCLXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2422 |
| Armenian calendar | 1118 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -175 – -174 |
| 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 |
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).
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[edit] Events of 1669
[edit] January - June
- February - Isaac Newton built the first "Newtonian reflector"[1]
- 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 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)
[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)