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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 literature
1669 in science

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, presummed 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
  • Births

  • August 24 - Alessandro Marcello, composer
  • Deaths

  • September 10 - Henrietta Maria, Dowager Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, Princess of France and Navarra
  • October 4 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
  • October 14 - Antonio Cesti, Italian musical composer.
  • December 9 - Pope Clement IX
  • Pieter Cuypers
  • 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
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