1669
Years:
1666
1667
1668
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1669
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1670
1671
1672
Decades
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1630s
1640s
1650s
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1660s
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1670s
1680s
1690s
Centuries
:
16th century
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17th century
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18th century
1669 in literature
1669 in science
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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
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Births
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Deaths
September 10
-
Henrietta Maria
, Dowager Queen of
England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
, Princess of
France
and
Navarra
October 4
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Rembrandt
,
Dutch
painter
.
October 14
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Antonio Cesti
, Italian musical composer.
December 9
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Pope Clement IX
Pieter Cuypers
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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