1669
*
March 11 -
Mount Etna erupts - the eruption destroys the town of
Nicolosi and kills 20,000
*
June 22 -
Roux de Marsilly publicly tortured to death in Paris accused of plotting to assassination of the
Louis XIV*
June 25 -
Francois de Vendome, Duke of Beaufort, disappears during a battle in a siege of
Candia in
Crete*
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*
Samuel Pepys stops 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
* The Chinese herbal medicine company
Tongrentang, or 同仁堂 in Chinese, is established.
*
Turkish units burned the eastern part of
Kolárovo*
February 2 -
Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (d.
1732)
*
May 26 -
Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d.
1722)
*
August 24 -
Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d.
1747)
*
February 23 -
Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b.
1600)
*
March 10 -
John Denham, English poet (b.
1615)
*
May 14 -
Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b.
1601)
*
May 16 -
Pietro da Cortona, Italian artist (b.
1596)
*
June 25 -
François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b.
1616)
*
September 10 -
Henrietta Maria, queen of
Charles I of England (b.
1609)
*
October 4 -
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b.
1606)
*
October 14 -
Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b.
1623)
*
October 24 -
William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b.
1600)
*
November 4 -
Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b.
1603)
*
December 9 -
Pope Clement IX (b.
1600)
*
December 16 -
Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician
*
Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens by
Jan Swammerdam, groundbreaking work in
microscopy as well as
entomology*
Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch by
Hans von Grimmelshausen, the first major German
novel*
Tyrannic Love by
John Dryden*
Tartuffe by
Molière*
Britannicus by
Jean Racine
