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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''.

, 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 .

/ Russia / Saksen / Poland divide Sweden .

December 3 - Baron Jacob Hop is appointed as the treasurer-general of The Hague .

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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