Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1660s  1670s  1680s  - 1690s -  1700s  1710s  1720s
Years:	1696 1697 1698 - 1699 - 1700 1701 1702

1699 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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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).

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 a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire.
• February 4 - Three hundred fifty rebellious Streltsi are executed in Moscow.
• March 4 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck, Germany.
• April 13 - The 10th Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh, creates 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 the second Extermination Treaty of Spain.
• June 14 - Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.

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 the 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 (d. 1777)
• March 25 - Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
• May 1 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
• May 13 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
• November 2 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
• November 25 - Pierre Subleyras, French painter (d. 1749)
• December 10 - King Christian VI of Denmark (d. 1746)
• date unknown - Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric (d. 1746)

Deaths

• January 21 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
• March 12 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
• April 21 - Jean Racine, French playwright (b. 1639)
• April 22 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (b. 1646)
• May 12 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
• May 15 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councillor (b. 1631)
• June 22 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
• September 26 - Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (b. 1618)
• August 25 - Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1646)
• November 29 - Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)