1699

1699 (MDCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday 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. As of the start of 1699, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1699 MDCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2452
Armenian calendar	1148 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	6449
Balinese saka calendar	1620–1621
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	1620–1621
- Kali Yuga	4799–4800
Holocene calendar	11699
Igbo calendar	699–700
Iranian calendar	1077–1078
Islamic calendar	1110–1111
Japanese calendar	Genroku 12 (元禄１２年)
Javanese calendar	1622–1623
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4032
Minguo calendar	213 before ROC 民前213年
Nanakshahi calendar	231
Thai solar calendar	2241–2242
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 1825 or 1444 or 672     — to — ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 1826 or 1445 or 673

Events

• January 26 – Treaty of Karlowitz signed.
• March 30 – the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh made the Khalsa.
• May 1 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville starts the first European settlement in the Mississippi River Valley.
• William Dampier goes to and discovers what is at the northwest coast of Australia.

William Dampier

Births

• March 23 – John Bartram the American botanist (died 1777)
• March 25 – Johann Adolf Hasse the German composer (died 1783)
• April 17 - Robert Blair the Scottish poet and cleric (died 1746)
• May 1 – Hans Joachim von Zieten the Prussian field marshal (died 1786)
• May 13 – Marquis of Pombal the Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1782)
• November 2 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin the French painter (died 1779)
• November 25 - Pierre Subleyras the French painter (died 1749)
• December 10 – King Christian VI of Denmark (died 1746)

Deaths

Jean Racine

• January 21 – Obadiah Walker the English writer (born 1616)

• March 12 – Peder Griffenfeld the Danish statesman (born 1635)
• April 21 – Jean Racine the French playwright (born 1639)
• April 22 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz the German statesman and poet (born 1646)
• May 12 – Lucas Achtschellinck the Flemish painter (born 1626)
• May 15 – Edward Petre the English Jesuit and privy councillor (born 1631)
• June 22 – Josiah Child the English Governor of the East India Company (born 1630)
• September 26 – Simon Arnauld de Pomponne the French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (born 1618).
• August 25 – Christian V the King of Denmark and Norway (born 1646)
• November 29 – Patrick Gordon the Scottish general (born 1635)