1669
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Template:C17YearInTopicX 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).
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 oldest trading company still 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
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)
- See also Category: 1669 deaths.