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1699
Years:
1696
1697
1698
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1699
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1700
1701
1702
Decades
:
1660s
1670s
1680s
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1690s
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1700s
1710s
1720s
Centuries
:
16th century
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17th century
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18th century
1699 in literature
1699 in science
1699 state leaders
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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
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Births
February 17
- Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, master builder (d.
1753
)
March 23
-
John Bartram
,
American
botanist (d.
1777
)
May 13
-
Marquis of Pombal
, Portuguese prime minister
November 2
-
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
, French painter (d.
1779
)
December 10
- King
Christian VI of Denmark
Pierre Subleyras, French painter (d.
1749
)
Robert Blair
, Scottish poet and cleric (d.
1746
)
Johann Adolf Hasse
, German composer (d.
1783
)
Joseph Gibbs, English organist and composer (d.
1788
)
John Dyer
, Welsh poet, painter, and cleric (d.
1758
)
Marie Thérèse Geoffrin, French scholar (d.
1777
)
Ferdinando Fuga, Italian architect (d.
1781
)
Jacob Adlung, German organist and scholar (d.
1762
)
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Deaths
April 21
-
Jean Racine
August 25
- King
Christian V of Denmark
(born
1646
)
Johann Georg Conradi, German composer
José Marin, Spanish tenor and composer (born
1619
)
Baptiste Monnoyer, French Baroque painter (born
1634
)