1669

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1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

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1669 in literature
1669 in science\n|}

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Publications

Events

\n* Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary.\n* The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and banned the whole religion, so Hindus rebel. \n* Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin \n* Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people\n* The Hanseatic League, formed 400 years ago, holds its final meeting\n* Ottoman Turks take Candia, the Venetians lose Crete

Births

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Deaths

\n*September 10 - Henrietta Maria, Dowager Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, Princess of France and Navarra\n*October 4 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter.\n*October 14 - Marc Antonio Cesti, Italian musical composer.\n*December 9 - Pope Clement IX\n*Pieter Cuypers

Publications

\n* Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens by Jan Swammerdam, groundbreaking work in microscopy as well as entomology\n* Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch das ist by Hans von Grimmelshausen, the first major German novel\n* Tyrannic Love by John Dryden\n* Tartufffe by Molière\n* Britannicus by Jean Racine \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n