Difference between revisions of "1669"

From Wikispooks
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Created page with "{{year |image= |image_width= |image_caption= |description= }} {{SMWDocs}} {{Stub}}")
 
m (unstub)
 
Line 1: Line 1:
 
{{year
 
{{year
|image=
+
|image=Hennig Brand (Joseph Wright).jpeg
 
|image_width=
 
|image_width=
|image_caption=
+
|image_caption=Phosphorus is discovered by German alchemist Hennig Brand, the first chemical element to be discovered that was not known since ancient times.
|description=
+
|description=Year 1669
 
}}
 
}}
 +
== Events ==
 +
=== January–June ===
 +
* [[March 11]] – [[Mount Etna]] [[1669 Etna eruption|erupts]], destroying the Sicilian town of [[Nicolosi]].
 +
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Samuel Pepys]] stops writing his diary.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/only-in-britain/samuel-pepys-diary/ </ref>
 +
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Roux de Marsilly]], accused of plotting the assassination of King [[Louis XIV of France]], is publicly tortured in [[Paris]], [[Kingdom of France|France]].
 +
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort]], disappears in battle, during the [[siege of Candia]] in [[Crete]].
 +
 +
=== July–December ===
 +
* [[July]] &ndash; The [[Hanseatic League]], after 400 years of operation, holds its last official meeting in [[Lübeck]].
 +
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Francesco Morosini]], ''capitano generale'' of the Venetian forces in the [[siege of Candia]], surrenders to the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]].
 +
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor]] grants the status and privileges of a [[university]] to the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Academy]] in [[Zagreb]], the precursor to the modern [[University of Zagreb]].
 +
 +
=== Date unknown ===
 +
* [[Shakushain's revolt]] breaks out in [[Hokkaido]], Japan.
 +
* [[Mughal emperor]] [[Aurangzeb]] destroys several Hindu temples (e.g. [[Kashi Vishwanath Temple|Kashi Vishwanath]] and [[Kesava Deo Temple|Kesava Deo]]), imposes the jizya tax, leading to Hindu rebellion.
 +
* [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] units burn the eastern part of [[Kolárovo]].
 +
* The Chinese [[Kangxi Emperor]] allows coastal residents deported in the [[Great Clearance]] of [[1662]] to return home.
 +
* Famine in [[Bengal]] kills 3 million people.
 +
* [[Phosphorus]] is discovered by German alchemist [[Hennig Brand]], the first chemical element to be discovered that was not known since ancient times.
 +
* [[Antonio Stradivari]] makes his first violin in Cremona.
 +
* [[Okaya & Co.]] is founded as Sasaya, a trading company in [[Nagoya]], Japan.
 +
* The Chinese herbal medicine company [[Tong Ren Tang]] (同仁堂) is established in Beijing.
 +
* [[Blaise Pascal]]'s ''[[Pensées]]'' is posthumously published in Paris.
 +
* [[Jan Swammerdam]] publishes his ''Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens'', a groundbreaking work in [[microscopy]], as well as [[entomology]].
 +
* The [[Orange College of Breda]] is wound up.
 +
* [[Jean Picard]] begins measurement of 1 degree of [[Earth]]'s [[Meridian (geography)|meridian]] arc in France.
 +
 +
== Births ==
 +
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Susanna Wesley]], mother of the John and Charles Wesley, known as mother of Methodism (d. [[1742]])
 +
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Forqueray]], French musician (d. [[1722]])
 +
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Emerentia von Düben]], Swedish royal favorite (d. [[1743]])
 +
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Sébastien Vaillant]], French botanist (d. [[1722]])
 +
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Eudoxia Lopukhina]], first wife of [[Peter I of Russia]] (d. [[1731]])
 +
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Anne Marie d'Orléans]], Queen of Sicily and Sardinia (d. [[1728]])
 +
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[John Anstis]], English herald (d. [[1744]])
 +
* [[October 19]] &ndash; Count [[Wirich Philipp von Daun]], Austrian military leader (d. [[1741]])
 +
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Arnold Boonen]], Dutch portrait painter (d. [[1729]])
 +
* ''date unknown''
 +
** [[Alessio Erardi]], Maltese painter (d. [[1727]])<
 +
** [[Jiang Tingxi]], Chinese painter (d. [[1732]])
 +
** [[Elżbieta Sieniawska]], politically influential Polish magnate (d. [[1729]])
 +
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Peter King, 1st Baron King]], Lord Chancellor of England (d. [[1734]])
 +
 +
== Deaths ==
 +
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Gaspar de Crayer]], Flemish painter (b. [[1584]])
 +
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Catharina Questiers]], Dutch poet (b. [[1631]])
 +
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Peter Venables (MP)|Peter Venables]], English politician (b. [[1604]])
 +
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Lieuwe van Aitzema]], Dutch historian and statesman (b. [[1600]])
 +
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[John Denham (poet)|John Denham]], English poet (b. [[1615]])
 +
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Cornelis Jan Witsen]], Mayor of Amsterdam (b. [[1605]])
 +
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Willem van der Zaan]], Dutch admiral (b. [[1621]])
 +
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Philipp Buchner]], German composer (b. [[1614]])
 +
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet]], English baronet (b. [[1624]])
 +
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Johann Michael Moscherosch]], German statesman, satirist (b. [[1601]])
 +
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Nabeshima Naozumi]], Japanese ''[[daimyō]]'' (b. [[1616]])
 +
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Abdias Treu]], German mathematician and academic (b. [[1597]])
 +
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]] (1639–1669) (b. [[1603]])
 +
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Johannes Canuti Lenaeus]], archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden (b. [[1573]])
 +
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Richard Treat]], American city founder (b. [[1584]])
 +
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Isaac Thornton]], English politician (b. [[1615]])
 +
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Georges de Scudéry]], French writer (b. [[1601]])
 +
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Pietro da Cortona]], Italian artist (b. [[1596]])
 +
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort]], French soldier (b. [[1616]])
 +
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire]], English politician (b. [[1587]])
 +
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[Josias II, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen]], major general in Brunswick and co-ruler of Waldeck-Wildungen (b. [[1636]])
 +
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[William Gawdy]], English politician (b. [[1612]])
 +
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Sir William Drake, 1st Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1606]])
 +
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Esteban Manuel de Villegas]], Spanish poet (b. [[1589]])
 +
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Henrietta Maria of France]], queen of [[Charles I of England]] (b. [[1609]])
 +
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Pierre Le Muet]], French architect (b. [[1591]])
 +
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn]], Dutch painter (b. [[1606]])
 +
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Richard Strode (died 1669)|Richard Strode]], English politician (b. [[1584]])
 +
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Antonio Cesti]], Italian composer (b. [[1623]])
 +
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[John Trapp]], English theologian (b. [[1601]])
 +
* [[October 19]]
 +
** [[Domenico Fiasella]], Italian painter (b. [[1589]])
 +
**[[Matthias Sention, Sr.]], Connecticut settler (b. [[1601]])
 +
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[William Prynne]], English Puritan leader (b. [[1600]])
 +
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Charles Drelincourt]], French Protestant divine (b. [[1595]])
 +
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Johannes Cocceius]], Dutch theologian (b. [[1603]])
 +
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen]], German prince of the House of Ascania (b. [[1622]])
 +
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth Pepys]], English wife of Samuel Pepys (b. [[1640]])
 +
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Pope Clement IX]] (b. [[1600]])
 +
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]], consort of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (b. [[1627]])
 +
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Thomas Dyke (MP for Seaford)|Thomas Dyke]], English politician (b. [[1619]])
 +
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Nathaniel Fiennes]], English politician (b. c. [[1608]])
 +
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Johann Philipp of Hanau-Lichtenberg]], German nobleman (b. [[1626]])
 +
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld]] (b. [[1591]])
 +
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Bogusław Radziwiłł]], Polish-Lithuanian noble (b. [[1620]])
 +
 
{{SMWDocs}}
 
{{SMWDocs}}
{{Stub}}
+
==References==
 +
{{reflist}}

Latest revision as of 05:53, 21 December 2021

1659 < 1660 < 1661 < 1662 < 1663 < 1664 < 1665 <1666 < 1667 < 1668 < 1669 > 1670 > 1671 > 1672 > 1673 > 1674 > 1675 > 1676 > 1677 > 1678 > 1679

Decade.png 1660s: )    Year.png 1669 Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Hennig Brand (Joseph Wright).jpeg
Phosphorus is discovered by German alchemist Hennig Brand, the first chemical element to be discovered that was not known since ancient times.
Year 1669

Events

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

Births

Deaths


 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
University of InnsbruckLFU unilog.gifPublicThird largest university in Austria
University of ZagrebUniversity of Zagreb logo.pngThe focal institution of higher education in Croatia, educating most of the members of the Croatian intelligentsia.
Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.


References