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1699
Year '''1699''' ('''Roman numerals|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 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz: Venice, Poland and Austria sign a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire.
- February 4 - Three hundred fifty(350) rebellious Streltsi are executed in Moscow.
- March 4 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck, Germany.
- April 13 - The 10th Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh, creates 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 the Treaty of London (also known as the Second Partition Treaty of Spain).
- June 14 - Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
- 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 (d. 1777)
- March 25 - Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
- May 1 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
- May 13 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
- November 2 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
- November 25 - Pierre Subleyras, French painter (d. 1749)
- December 10 - King Christian VI of Denmark (d. 1746)
- ''date unknown'' - Robert Blair (poet)|Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric (d. 1746)
Deaths
- January 21 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
- March 12 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
- April 21 - Jean Racine, French playwright (b. 1639)
- April 22 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (b. 1646)
- May 12 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
- May 15 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councillor (b. 1631)
- June 22 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
- September 26 - Simon Arnauld, marquis de Pomponne|Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV (b. 1618)
- August 25 - Christian V of Denmark|Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1646)
- November 29 - Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)
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