1669

Events

January–June

• March 11 - Mount Etna erupts, destroying the Sicilian town of Nicolosi.
• May 31 - Samuel Pepys stops writing his diary.
• June 22 - Roux de Marsilly, accused of plotting the assassination of King Louis XIV of France, is publicly tortured in Paris, France.
• June 25 - François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort, disappears in battle, during the Siege of Candia in Crete.

  July–December

• July - The Hanseatic League, after 400 years of operation, holds its last official meeting in Lübeck.
• September 6 - Francesco Morosini, capitano generale of the Venetian forces in the Siege of Candia, surrenders to the Ottomans.
• September 23 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor grants the status and privileges of a university to the Jesuit Academy in Zagreb, the precursor to the modern University of Zagreb.

  Date unknown

• Shakushain's Revolt breaks out in Hokkaido, Japan.
• The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples, and prohibits the whole religion, leading to Hindu rebellion.
• Ottoman units burn the eastern part of Kolárovo.
• The Chinese Kangxi Emperor allows coastal residents deported in 1662 to return home.
• Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people.
• Phosphorus is discovered by Hennig Brand.
• Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin.
• Okaya & Co., Ltd., is founded in Nagoya, Japan.
• The Chinese herbal medicine company Tongrentang, or 同仁堂 in Chinese, is established.
• Blaise Pascal's Pensées is posthumously published in Paris.
• Jan Swammerdam publishes his Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens, a groundbreaking work in microscopy, as well as entomology.
• The Orange College of Breda is wound up.
• Jean Picard begins measurement of 1 degree of Earth's meridian arc.

  Births

• January 20 - Susanna Wesley, mother of the John and Charles Wesley, known as mother of Methodism
• April 3 - Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, French musician
• May 24 - Emerentia von Düben, Swedish royal favorite
• May 26 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist
• July 30 - Eudoxia Lopukhina, first wife of Peter I of Russia
• August 27 - Anne Marie d'Orléans, Queen of Sicily and Sardinia
• August 29 - John Anstis, English herald
• October 19 - Count Wirich Philipp von Daun, Austrian military leader
• December 16 - Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter
• date unknown
• * Alessio Erardi, Maltese painter
• * Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter
• * Elżbieta Sieniawska, politically influential Polish magnate
• probable - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England

  Deaths

• January 27 - Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter
• February 3 - Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet
• February 13 - Peter Venables, English politician
• February 23 - Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman
• March 10 - John Denham, English poet
• March 12 - Cornelis Jan Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam
• March 17 - Willem van der Zaan, Dutch admiral
• March 23 - Philipp Buchner, German composer
• March 25 - Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet, English baronet
• April 4 - Johann Michael Moscherosch, German statesman, satirist
• April 5 - Nabeshima Naozumi, Japanese daimyō
• April 12 - Abdias Treu, German mathematician and academic
• April 22 - Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• April 23 - Johannes Canuti Lenaeus, archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden
• April 27 - Richard Treat, American city founder
• May 1 - Isaac Thornton, English politician
• May 14 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer
• May 16 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian artist
• June 25 - François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort, French soldier
• July 16 - Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire, English politician
• July 29 - Josias II, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen, major general in Brunswick and co-ruler of Waldeck-Wildungen
• August 18 - William Gawdy, English politician
• August 28 - Sir William Drake, 1st Baronet, English politician
• September 3 - Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet
• September 10 - Henrietta Maria of France, queen of Charles I of England
• September 28 - Pierre Le Muet, French architect
• October 4 - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter
• October 9 - Richard Strode, English politician
• October 14 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer
• October 16 - John Trapp, English theologian
• October 19
• * Domenico Fiasella, Italian painter
• *Matthias Sention, Sr., Connecticut settler
• October 24 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader
• November 3 - Charles Drelincourt, French Protestant divine
• November 4 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian
• November 7 - Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince of the House of Ascania
• November 10 - Elisabeth Pepys, English wife of Samuel Pepys
• December 9 - Pope Clement IX
• December 11 - Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, consort of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
• December 13 - Thomas Dyke, English politician
• December 16 - Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician
• December 18 - Johann Philipp of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German nobleman
• December 25 - George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
• December 31 - Bogusław Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian noble