1669
Events Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary. The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and banned the whole religion, so Hindus rebel. Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people The Hanseatic League, formed 400 years ago, holds its final meeting Ottoman Turks take Candia, the Venetians lose CreteFrancois de Beaufort, grandson of Henry IV of France, goes missing at Candia, presumed dead September 23 - Leopold I Habsburg grants the status and privileges of a university to the Jesuit Academy in Zagreb, the precursor to the modern University of Zagreb
BirthsAugust 24 - Alessandro Marcello, composer
DeathsSeptember 10 - Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, Princess of France and Navarra (b. 1609)October 4 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter.October 14 - Antonio Cesti, Italian musical composer.December 9 - Pope Clement IXPieter Cuypers
Publications Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens by Jan Swammerdam, groundbreaking work in microscopy as well as entomology Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch das ist by Hans von Grimmelshausen, the first major German novel Tyrannic Love by John Dryden Tartuffe by Molière Britannicus by Jean Racine
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