1699

This article is about the year 1699. For the number, see 1699 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1660s  1670s  1680s  – 1690s –  1700s  1710s  1720s
Years:	1696 1697 1698 – 1699 – 1700 1701 1702

1699 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1699 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1699 MDCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2452
Armenian calendar	1148 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	6449
Bengali calendar	1106
Berber calendar	2649
English Regnal year	11 Will. 3 – 12 Will. 3
Buddhist calendar	2243
Burmese calendar	1061
Byzantine calendar	7207–7208
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4395 or 4335     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4396 or 4336
Coptic calendar	1415–1416
Discordian calendar	2865
Ethiopian calendar	1691–1692
Hebrew calendar	5459–5460
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1755–1756
- Shaka Samvat	1621–1622
- Kali Yuga	4800–4801
Holocene calendar	11699
Igbo calendar	699–700
Iranian calendar	1077–1078
Islamic calendar	1110–1111
Japanese calendar	Genroku 12 (元禄１２年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4032
Minguo calendar	213 before ROC 民前213年
Thai solar calendar	2241–2242

1699 (MDCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Julian calendar, the 1699th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 699th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1690s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1699 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January 19 – The Parliament of England (under Tory dominance) limits the size of the country's standing army to 7,000 'native born' men. King William III's Dutch Blue Guards hence cannot serve in the line. By Act of February 1, it also requires disbandment of foreign troops in Ireland.
• January 26 – Treaty of Karlowitz is concluded. The Republic of Venice, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Holy Roman Empire sign a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Turks cede to Austria all their former territories in Transylvania, Slavonia, Croatia and the whole of Hungary except for the Banat of Temesvar. The Peloponnese and Dalmatia are ceded to Venice. Large parts of the Ukraine are ceded to Poland. The treaty marks a significant stage in the decline of the Ottoman Empire that has dominated eastern Europe since the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
• February 4 – 350 rebellious Streltsi are executed in Moscow.
• March 2 – The Edinburgh Gazette is first published.
• March 4 – Jews are expelled from Lübeck, Germany. [1]
• 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 Dutch Republic agree on the terms of the Second Partition Treaty for Spain.
• June 14 – Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam pump to the Royal Society of London.

July–December

• July 6 – Pirate Captain William Kidd is arrested and imprisoned in Boston, Massachusetts.
• July 26 – William Dampier's expedition to New Holland (Australia) in HMS Roebuck reaches Dirk Hartog Island at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay in Western Australia and begins producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna.
• August 25 – Death of Christian V, King of Denmark–Norway since 1670. He is succeeded by his son Frederick IV (to 1730).
• September 22
  • Citizens of Rotterdam strike over the high price of butter.
  • Treaty of Preobrazhenskoye calls for the partition of the Swedish Empire between the Tsardom of Russia, Kingdom of Denmark–Norway, Electorate of Saxony and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 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 1 September to 1 January.

Undated

• Billingsgate Fish Market in London is sanctioned as a permanent institution by Act of Parliament.

In fiction

• May 4 – The beginning of Gulliver's Travels (1726).

Births

• March 23 – John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777)
• March 25 – Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
• April 17 – Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric (d. 1746)
• 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)
• November 30 – King Christian VI of Denmark (d. 1746)
• December 19 – William Bowyer (printer), English printer (d. 1777)

Deaths

• January 21 – Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
• March 12 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
• April 21 – Jean Racine, French dramatist who wrote several great tragedies based on Greek and Roman literature (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)

References

• In The (The Holy Science), Sri Yukteswar concludes that we are currently in the beginning stages of Dwapara Yuga, which began around 1699 A.D. This now puts us in the year 311 Dwapara according to Sri Yukteswar. Thus, we are moving closer to the grand center, and will pass into Treta Yuga around the year 4099 A.D.[1]