1699

Events of 1699

• January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz: Venice, Poland and Austria sign a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire.
• February 4 - Three hundred fifty(350) 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 Treaty of London (also known as the Second Partition Treaty of Spain).
• June 14 - Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
• 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)