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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).

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Events of 1699

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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 peace treaty with Turkey.

★ 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 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)
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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)
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