* 1669 – Anne Marie d ' Orléans, French wife of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia ( d. 1728 )

* 1603 – Johannes Cocceius, German-Dutch theologian ( d. 1669 )

* 1669 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, Russian wife of Peter the Great ( d. 1731 )

Although the increased contact brought by trade between the Japanese and the Ainu contributed to increased mutual understanding, sometimes it led to conflict, occasionally intensifying into violent Ainu revolts, of which the most important was Shakushain's Revolt ( 1669 – 1672 ).

* 1605 – Antonio Bertali, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1669 )

That the curve followed by a chain is not a parabola was proven by Joachim Jungius ( 1587 – 1657 ); this result was published posthumously in 1669.

* 1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet ( d. 1669 )

* 1669 – Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1732 )

* Caspar de Crayer, painter ( 1582 – 1669 )

* 1616 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier ( d. 1669 )

* 1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter ( d. 1669 )

* 1669 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist ( d. 1722 )

* 1744 – John Anstis, Garter King of Arms ( b. 1669 )

* 1600 – Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman ( d. 1669 )

* 1609 – Queen Henrietta Maria of France ( d. 1669 )

* 1669 – Johann Nicolaus Bach, German composer ( d. 1753 )

The first form of elemental phosphorus to be produced ( white phosphorus, in 1669 ) emits a faint glow upon exposure to oxygen – hence its name given from Greek mythology, meaning " light-bearer " ( Latin Lucifer ), referring to the " Morning Star ", the planet Venus.

Pope Clement IX ( 28 January 1600 – 9 December 1669 ), born Giulio Rospigliosi, was Pope from 1667 to 1669.

Odescalchi was a strong papal candidate after the death of Pope Clement IX ( 1667 – 69 ) in 1669, but the French government rejected him ( using the now-abolished veto ).

* Charles Philip of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1669 – 90 ), colonel in the Imperial Army

* 1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.

The influence of Vesalius ' plates representing the partial dissections of the human figure posing in a landscape setting is apparent in the anatomical plates prepared by the Baroque painter Pietro da Cortona ( 1596 – 1669 ), who executed anatomical plates with figures in dramatic poses, most with architectural or landscape backdrops.

* Apostolo Zeno ( 1669 – 1750 ), Venetian poet and librettist

Aurangzeb ordered its demolition in 1669 and constructed a mosque on the site, whose minarets stand 71 metres above the Ganges.

Doppelmayr gives 1669 – 70 for the Bayreuth stay, while Mattheson confusingly reports that Johann Philipp was at Zeitz in 1670 – 71, and at Bayreuth in 1670 – 72.

The immensely famous Letters of a Portuguese Nun ( Lettres portugaises ) ( 1669 ) generally attributed to Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues, though a small minority still regard Marianna Alcoforado as the author, is claimed to be intended to be part of a miscellany of Guilleragues prose and poetry.

Portuguese sent military expeditions to the Amazon rainforest and conquered British and Dutch strongholds, founding villages and forts from 1669.

Also in 1669, the original publisher, Claude Barbin, published a sequel, again said to have been written by a " Portuguese lady of society ," with the addition of seven new letters to the original five.

The first settlement at Wicaco, a Swedish settlers ' log blockhouse located below Society Hill, was built in present-day Philadelphia in 1669.

Saint-Germain-en-Laye is famous for its 2. 4 kilometre long stone terrace built by André Le Nôtre from 1669 to 1673.

While Oxford officially marks the year 1683 as its founding because in that year it was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport, the town began between 1666 and 1668 when were laid out as a town called Oxford by William Stephens, Jr .. By 1669 one of the first houses was built for Innkeeper Francis Armstrong ( see Talbot County Land Records, A 1, f. 10 / 11 ).

Already in 1669 and 1689, the Swedish government had issued decrees ( Freiheitspatente ) absolving anyone of taxes who built or rebuilt a house.

The Honcheonsigye, an armillary sphere activated by a working clock mechanism was built by the Korean astronomer Song Iyeong in 1669.

That winter the Cossacks with Razin fended off starvation and disease on the Mian Kaleh Peninsula, and in the spring of 1669 Razin built a base on the eastern side of the Caspian Sea and began raiding Turkmen villages.

Because Pomerania had been hit hard by the Thirty Years ' War already and found it hard to recover during the following years, the Swedish government in 1669 and 1689 issued decrees ( Freiheitspatente ) freeing anyone of taxes who built or rebuilt a house.

Early settlement along the Hudson River shoreline occurred around 1628 / 9 and in 1669 a fort was built on Papscanee Island.

The Borgholm Castle was built between 1669 and 1681 for Queen Hedvig Eleonora, and designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder.

The first lighthouse on Flamborough Head was built by Sir John Clayton in 1669, but never lit.

In 1669 the church was built, which meant independence from the village of Trogen.

As the route approaches the roundabout that forms the intersection with the A361, it passes by the Waggon & Horses Inn, built in 1669 to profit from the increasing trade along the old Bath Road.

Its second Hall was built in 1669 to the design of Sir Christopher Wren, although this too met the same sad fate by being destroyed by fire in 1882.

A second exchange was built on the site, designed by Edward Jarman, which opened in 1669, and was also destroyed by fire on 10 January 1838.

By 1669 around 200 Presbyterians were worshipping at a warehouse at Ratcliffe Cross and there was a purpose built Quaker meeting house in Schoolhouse Lane, which was demolished by soldiers in 1670.

It was walled ; the Austrians built a fort there in 1669 to defend it from the Turks, and that fort would remain a bone of contention for the two empires.

* 1669 Fort Gillingham and Cockham Wood Fort were built

The valley church of S. Carlo was built in 1617, and was raised to be the parish church in 1669.

The monastery was first built during the Qing Dynasty, but has been heavily rebuilt and renovated since and consists now of the West Monastery from 1669 and the East Monastery from 1940 and is the largest and oldest one in the town.

Also surviving is the Castillo de Santa Maria de la Cabeza, which was built in 1669.

The first one was built from 1647 to 1669.

When the last member of the class was built in 1955 ( 1669 ) the basic design was over 80 years old.

Claver Morris House was built as a canonical house in 1669 by Dr Claver Morris, while Plumptre dates from 1737 and was built for Dr Francis White.