1669
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| Years: 1666 1667 1668 - 1669 - 1670 1671 1672 | |
| Decades: 1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
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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, presumed dead
- 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
- The Chinese herbal medicine company Tongrentang, or 同仁堂 in Chinese, is established.
Births
- August 24 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
Deaths
- September 10 - Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1609)
- October 4 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
- October 14 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)
- December 9 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
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
- Tartuffe by Molière
- Britannicus by Jean Racineaf:1669
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