1669: Difference between revisions

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century; 17th century ; 18th century;
Decades:	1640s; 1650s; 1660s ; 1670s; 1680s;
Years:	1666; 1667; 1668; 1669 ; 1670; 1671; 1672;

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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 - 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.

One of the oldest companies in existence, Okaya, was founded this year in Nagoya, Japan.
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

See also Category: 1669 deaths.

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-*One of the oldest companies in existence, [[Okaya & Co. Ltd.|Okaya]], was founded this year in Nagoya, Japan.
+*One of the oldest companies in existence, [[Okaya & Co., Ltd.|Okaya]], was founded this year in Nagoya, Japan.
 *The [[Mogul]] Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] destroys several [[Hindu]] temples and banned the whole religion, so Hindus rebel.
 *[[Antonio Stradivari]] makes his first violin.