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

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

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 )

The Five Ks, or panj kakaar / kakke, are five articles of faith that all baptized Sikhs ( also called Khalsa Sikhs ) are typically obliged to wear at all times, as commanded by the tenth Sikh Guru, who so ordered on the day of Baisakhi Amrit Sanskar in 1699.

Sikh distinction was further enhanced by the establishment of the Khalsa ( ਖ ਼ਾ ਲਸ ਾ), by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699.

* The Sikhs adopted the name Singh in 1699 during the Birth of the Khalsa.

Guru Gobind Singh, the last of the living Sikh Gurus, initiated the Sikh Khalsa in 1699, passing the Guruship of the Sikhs to the Eleventh and Eternal Guru of the Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib.

The Khalsa was inaugurated on March 30, 1699, by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru.

At the Battle of Chamkaur, the Khalsa led by Panj Pyare passed on an order / command to the Guru Gobind Singh to escape from the Chamkaur and the Guru had to obey it, because at that point of time, and as proclaimed by the Guru on March 30, 1699 about his absorption into the Khalsa and declaring the five-beloved being equal to him, the Guru was just a Singh of the Khalsa.

The Five Ks ( Pañj Kakār ) are five Articles of Faith that Khalsa Sikhs wear at all times as commanded by the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh who so ordered it at the Vaisakhi Amrit Sanskar in 1699.

Since the manifestation of the Khalsa by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699, Vahiguru has been part of the Sikh salutation: " Vahiguru ji ka Khalsa, Vahiguru ji ki Fateh " (" Hail the Khalsa who belongs to the Lord God!

The tenth patriach, Guru Gobind Singh was a master of shastar vidiya who galvanized the martial energies of the Sikh community by founding the Khalsa brotherhood in 1699.

It is a religious commandment given by Guru Gobind Singh ( the tenth Guru of Sikhism ) at the Baisakhi Amrit Sanchar ( a holy religious ceremony that formally baptizes a Sikh ) in 1699, all baptised Sikhs ( Khalsa ) must wear a kirpan at all times ..

He moved on to Anandpur and established the Khalsa, a collective army of baptized Sikhs, on 30 March 1699.

The adherents of Sikh faith adopted Singh as a surname in 1699, as per the wish of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru.

In the Spring of 1699, on the day of Baisakhi, Guru Gobind Singh Ji ( originally named Guru Gobind Rai Ji ), made it mandatory for all Sikh males to append the name suffix Singh after their name and " Kaur " for Women.

The tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh at an event which coincided with the Baisakhi day in year 1699 initiated that every Sikh must follow the Five Ks ; they are not merely symbols but commitment to the faith and philosophy of Guru Nanak, Sikhism, and collectively form the external visible symbols ; hence clearly and outwardly advertising and displaying one's commitment.

Piety and Politics: Religion & the Rise of Absolutism in England, Wurttemberg & Prussia ( 1984 ) 215pp ; covers 1500 to 1699

* The Common-sense Philosophy of Religion of Bishop Edward Stillingfleet 1635 – 1699, ISBN 90-247-1647-0.

The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.

Kidd also visited Block Island around 1699, where he was supplied by Mrs. Mercy ( Sands ) Raymond, daughter of the mariner James Sands.

There was no agreement about this question, although it was talked about it at the negotiations to the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699.

This was observed by William Dampier, a British Brigadier visiting the Island in 1699:

He therefore settled in Ireland, and in 1699 the deanery of Killaloe was conferred upon him by the king.

In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons.

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.

In France, a poll tax, the capitation, was first imposed by King Louis XIV in 1695 as a temporary measure to finance the War of the League of Augsburg, and thus repealed in 1699.

The last serving British Ministerial visit was in 1699.

The religious practice was formalised by Guru Gobind Singh on 30 March 1699.

The issue was further confused following the death of Joseph Ferdinand of smallpox in 1699 at the age of six, reopening the issue of the Spanish succession.

The rampart was removed in 1699.

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.

Year 1699 ( MDCXCIX ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Newton was subsequently given the post of Master of the Mint in 1699.

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, was abandoned in 1699 when Williamsburg became the new capital of the colony ; the Zwaanendael Colony became a ghost town in 1632, when every one of the colonists were massacred by Indians ; and in 1590, mapmaker John White arrived at the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina to find it deserted, its inhabitants having vanished without a trace.

Between 16 November 1698 and 26 January 1699, the town of Karlovci was the site of a congress that ended the hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League, a coalition of various European powers including Habsburg Monarchy, Poland, Venice and Russia ; the congress produced the Treaty of Karlowitz.

The result of the treaty was the restoration of Habsburg administration over much of the territory of present-day Serbia, which they had temporarily had during the Great Turkish War between 1688 and 1699, and the effective establishment of the Kingdom of Serbia crownland, which would be acceded to the Ottomans in accordance to the Treaty of Belgrade, which had effectively reverted some parts of the Passarowitz treaty.