1669

Decades: 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s

Years: 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 - 1669 - 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674

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

Year in topic

• 1669 in literature
• 1669 in science

Births

Deaths

• September 10 - Henrietta Maria, Dowager Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, Princess of France and Navarra
• October 4 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
• October 14 - Marc Antonio Cesti, Italian musical composer.
• 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
• Tartufffe by Molière
• Britannicus by Jean Racine

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