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| 1699 by topic: |
| Arts and Science |
| Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Lists of leaders |
| Colonial governors - State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
1699 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1699
MDCXCIX |
| Ab urbe condita |
2452 |
| Armenian calendar |
1148
ԹՎ ՌՃԽԸ |
| Chinese calendar |
4395 – 4396
戊寅 – 己卯 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1691 – 1692 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5459 – 5460 |
| Hindu calendars |
|
| - Vikram Samvat |
1754 – 1755 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1621 – 1622 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4800 – 4801 |
| Iranian calendar |
1077 – 1078 |
| Islamic calendar |
1111 – 1112 |
1699 (MDCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events
- January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz signed.
- March 30 - 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.
- 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)
- December 10 - King Christian VI of Denmark (died 1746)
- Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric (died 1746)
- Pierre Subleyras, French painter (died 1749)
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)