1669

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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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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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

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 af:1669