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 in topic: Literature - Science - State leaders

Contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Publications

Events

• Samuel Pepys stopped 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
• 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
• The Chinese herbal medicine company Tongrentang, or 同仁堂 in Chinese, is established.

Births

• August 24 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)

Deaths

• September 10 - Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1609)
• October 4 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
• October 14 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)
• December 9 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)

Publications

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

See also: 1669, 1600, 1606, 1609, 1623, 1630s, 1640s, 1650s, 1660s