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1699

Years: 1696 1697 1698 - 1699 - 1700 1701 1702

Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1699 in literature 1699 in science 1699 state leaders

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

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

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)

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)

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