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.

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

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