1669

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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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Events of 1669

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1669

January - June

★ March 11 - Mount Etna erupts - the eruption destroys the town of Nicolosi and kills 20,000 people.

★ May - Samuel Pepys stops writing his diary.

★ June 22 - Roux de Marsilly publicly tortured to death in Paris accused of plotting the assassination of King Louis XIV of France.

★ June 25 - Francis of Vendome, Duke of Beaufort, disappears during a battle in the siege of Candia in Crete.

July - December

★ July - The Hanseatic League, after 400 years of operation, holds its last official meeting.

★ 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.

Undated

★ 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 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

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)

★ ''probable'' - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, British statesman (d. 1738)

★ date unknown

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★ Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter, calligrapher, encyclopedist, foreign diplomat to Japan (d. 1732)
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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)
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