1669
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| Centuries: | 16th century · 17th century · 18th century |
| Decades: | 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s |
| Years: | 1666 1667 1668 1669 1670 1671 1672 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1669 MDCLXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2422 |
| Armenian calendar | 1118 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԸ |
| Chinese calendar | 4305/4365-11-29 (戊申年十一月廿九日) — to — 4306/4366-12-9(己酉年十二月初九日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1661 – 1662 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5429 – 5430 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1724 – 1725 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1591 – 1592 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4770 – 4771 |
| Iranian calendar | 1047 – 1048 |
| Islamic calendar | 1080 – 1081 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2212 |
1669 (MDCLXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events
- March 11 - Mount Etna erupts - the eruption destroys the town of Nicolosi and kills 20,000
- June 22 - Roux de Marsilly publicly tortured to death in Paris accused of plotting the assassination of King Louis XIV of France.
- June 25 - Francois de Vendome, Duke of Beaufort, disappears during a battle in the siege of Candia in Crete
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Turkish units burned the eastern part of Kolárovo
[edit] 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)
[edit] Deaths
- February 23 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (born 1600)
- March 10 - John Denham, English poet (born 1615)
- May 14 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (born 1601)
- May 16 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian artist (born 1596)
- June 25 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (born 1616)
- September 10 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (born 1609)
- October 4 - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (born 1606)
- October 14 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (born 1623)
- October 24 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (born 1600)
- November 4 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (born 1603)
- December 9 - Pope Clement IX (born 1600)
- December 16 - Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (born c1608)
[edit] 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 Racineaf:1669
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