1699

Year 1699 (MDCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, or a common year starting on Sunday (Julian-1699) of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1699

January - June

• January 14 - Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for having wrongly persecuted witches.
• January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz: Venice, Poland and Austria sign a peace treaty with Ottoman Empire.
• February 4 - 350 rebellious Streltsi are executed in Moscow.
• March 4 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany.
• April 13 - The tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa.
• May 1 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville founds the first European settlement in the Mississippi River Valley, at Fort Maurepas (Ocean Springs, Mississippi).
• June 11 - England, France and the Netherlands agree on second Extermination treaty of Spain.

July - December

• July 6 - Pirate Capt. William Kidd is captured in Boston.
• September 22 - Citizens of Rotterdam strike over the high price of butter.
• November 22 - Treaty of Preobrasjensku: Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden.
• December 3 - Baron Jacob Hop is appointed as the treasurer-general of the Hague.
• December 20 - Peter the Great orders the Russian New Year changed from September 1 to January 1.

Undated

• William Dampier explores the northwest coast of Australia.

Births

• March 23 - John Bartram, American botanist (died 1777)
• March 25 - Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer (died 1783)
• May 1 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (died 1786)
• May 13 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1782)
• November 2 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (died 1779)
• November 25 - Pierre Subleyras, French painter (died 1749)
• December 10 - King Christian VI of Denmark (died 1746)
• date unknown - Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric (died 1746)

See also Category: 1699 births.

Deaths

• January 21 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (born 1616)
• March 12 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (born 1635)
• April 21 - Jean Racine, French playwright (born 1639)
• April 22 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (born 1646)
• May 12 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (born 1626)
• May 15 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councillor (born 1631)
• June 22 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (born 1630)
• September 26 - Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (born 1618).
• August 25 - Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway (born 1646)
• November 29 - Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (born 1635)

See also Category: 1699 deaths.af:1699

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