1669

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years:	1666 1667 1668 - 1669 - 1670 1671 1672

1669 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1669 (MDCLXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1669

February - Isaac Newton built the first "Newtonian reflector"^[1]
March 11 - Mount Etna erupts, destroying the town of Nicolosi and killing 20,000 people.
May 31 - Samuel Pepys stops writing his diary.
June 22 - Roux de Marsilly, accused of plotting the assassination of King Louis XIV of France, is publicly tortured in Paris.
June 25 - Francis of Vendome, Duke of Beaufort, disappears during a battle in the Siege of Candia in Crete.

July - The Hanseatic League, after 400 years of operation, holds its last official meeting in Lübeck.
September 6 - Francesco Morosini, capitano generale of the Venetian forces in the Siege of Candia, surrenders to the Ottomans.
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.
Alejandro Pedro Tesero III invents the pinata.

Okaya & Co., Ltd., is founded in Nagoya, Japan.
The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and bans the whole religion, so Hindus rebel.
Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin.
Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people.
Phosphorus is discovered by Hennig Brand.
The Chinese herbal medicine company Tongrentang, or 同仁堂 in Chinese, is established.
Turkish units burn the eastern part of Kolárovo.
Chinese Kangxi Emperor allows coastal residents deported in 1662 to return home.
Jan Swammerdam publishes his Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens, a groundbreaking work in microscopy as well as entomology