* 1666 – Maria Sofia of Neuburg ( d. 1699 )

* 1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa-the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints-by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 2 November 1699 – 6 December 1779 ) was an 18th-century French painter.

* 1699 – Queen Maria Josepha of Poland ( d. 1757 )

* 1639 – Jean Racine, French dramatist ( d. 1699 )

Amrit Pahul – Sikh baptism for both men and women – was instituted in 1699 by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru.

Eugene's remaining brother, Louis Thomas – ostracised for incurring the displeasure of Louis XIV – travelled Europe in search of a career before arriving in Vienna in 1699.

But according to another source, the word " Geology " comes from the Norwegian, Mikkel Pedersøn Escholt ( 1600 – 1699 ), who was a priest and scholar.

Peter's ambitions for a " window to the sea " led him in 1699 to make a secret alliance with the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Denmark against Sweden resulting in the Great Northern War.

* 1699 – Osman III, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1757 )

* 1699 – Treaty of Carlowitz is signed.

* 1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter ( d. 1699 )

The Parliament was initially influenced by John Pym ( 1584 – 1699 ) and his supporters.

* 1699 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter ( b. 1626 )

* 1699 – Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese statesman, Prime Minister of Portugal ( d. 1782 )

* 1699 – Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer ( d. 1783 )

* 1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter ( d. 1779 )

* 1699 – Jan Zach, Czech composer and musician ( d. 1773 )

* Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet ( 1699 – 1771 ), Irish MP for Carlow County 1730 – 1761

* Marquis of Pombal ( 1699 – 1782 ) Portuguese statesman notable for his swift and competent leadership in the aftermath of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

* January 16 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter ( d. 1699 )

* December 22 – Jean Racine, French dramatist ( d. 1699 )

* Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste at the site of present day Natchitoches, Louisiana ( the first permanent European settlement in the Louisiana Territory, after Biloxi ( 1699 ) and Mobile, Alabama ( 1702 ) were separated ).

She is also the subject of a tragedy by French classical playwright Jean Racine ( 1639 – 1699 ), entitled Andromaque, and a minor character in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.

* Jean Racine ( 1639 – 1699 ), 17th century French dramatist

* Jean Thurel, notable soldier ( b. 1699, d. 1807 ) who served in the Touraine Regiment some 90 years.

Jean Rousseau ( 1 October 1644 – 1 June 1699 ) was a French viol player, theorist, composer, and author remembered principally for his Traité de la viole ( 1687 ), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time, as well as on techniques used in the construction of viols ( Green 2001 ).

* Jean Racine ( 1639 – 1699 )

* Jean Racine ( 1639 – 1699 )

* Jean Racine ( 1639 – 1699 )

* December 22-Jean Racine, dramatist ( died 1699 )

In 1699 he succeeded Samuel Pufendorf as historiographer to the elector, and the same year replaced his uncle Joseph Ancillon as judge of all the French refugees in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

The scheme of the Paris police force was extended to the rest of France by a royal edict of October 1699, resulting in the creation of lieutenants general of police in all large French cities and towns.

* November – Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV ( d. 1699 )

* December 6 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter ( b. 1699 )

Both Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 1699 – 1779 ) and Jean-Baptiste Greuze ( 1725 – 1805 ), were important French painters of the Rococo era who are considered Anti-Rococo.

This was on March 3, 1699, Mardi Gras, so in honor of this holiday, Iberville named the spot Point du Mardi Gras ( French: " Mardi Gras Point ") and called the nearby tributary Bayou Mardi Gras.

The European-American history of Baton Rouge dates from 1699, when French explorer Sieur d ' Iberville leading an exploration party up the Mississippi River saw a reddish cypress pole festooned with bloody animals that marked the boundary between the Houma and Bayou Goula tribal hunting grounds.

The first recorded modern usage of the term can be traced to a 1699 book entitled Les Aventures de Telemaque, by the French writer François Fénelon In the book the lead character is that of Mentor.

In 1699 Louisiana was named an administrative district of New France therefore, as far as the Europeans ( France, England and Spain ) were concerned, the area of Jasper County was French territory.

In 1699, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville, a French explorer, was the first European to visit the area of present-day St. Tammany Parish.

The oldest European settlement in the parish was La Balize, where the French built and inhabited a crude fort by 1699 near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Natchitoches was founded as a French outpost on the Red River for trade with Spanish-controlled Mexico ; French traders settled there as early as 1699.

The first permanent settlement in French Louisiana was founded at Fort Maurepas, now in Ocean Springs, Mississippi and referred to as Old Biloxi, in 1699 under the direction of Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville, with Louisiana separated from Spanish Florida at the Perdido River near Pensacola ( founded 1559 and again in 1698 ).

The settlement of Fort Maurepas or Old Biloxi, in colonial French Louisiana ( New France ), began in April 1699 at present-day Ocean Springs, under the authority of King Louis XIV, as Fort Maurepas by Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville.

On October 10, 1699, a fleet of eight canoes bearing a party of French explorers entered the mouth of Root River.

Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais ( comte de La Bourdonnais ) ( Saint-Malo, 11 February 1699 – Paris, 10 November 1753 ) was a French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East India Company.