1699

Events of 1699

January 14 - Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for having wrongly persecuted witches.
January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz: Venice, Poland and Austria sign a peace treaty with Ottoman Empire.
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 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.

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)