In October 1669 Lauderdale visited as high commissioner ; Argyll, aware that Lady Dysart, who shortly became Lauderdale's second wife, was using her influence against him, made a point of attentions to Lauderdale at Berwick.

* 1669: John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale

In 1669 the city of Heraklion, on Crete, which at one time boasted at least 120 painters, finally fell to the Turks, and from that time Greek icon painting went into a decline, with a revival attempted in the 20th century by art reformers such as Photios Kontoglou, who emphasized a return to earlier styles.

Finding the Cabal insufferable, Sir William Coventry resigned as Secretary to the Admiralty and went back to the House of Commons, where he emerged in 1669 as the formidable leader of a group of parliamentarians known as the " Country Party "-a group of MPs held together by their suspicion of corruption in high places, suspicious of the king's dubious foreign policy and, increasingly, suspicious of his loyalty to Protestantism.

To improve his health, Stoddard went to Barbados and served as a chaplain from 1667 to 1669.

Having finished his studies at Leiden, he went to Paris, where, under the instruction of Sebastien Vaillant ( 1669 – 1722 ), Jacob Winslow ( 1669 – 1760 ) and others, he devoted himself especially to anatomy and botany.

Pepys Diary of 26 May 1669 mentions that he went on hunger strike, claiming that the Judges had found for him, but the King had overridden them.

Fox married Margaret Fell of Swarthmoor Hall, a lady of high social position and one of his early converts, on 27 October 1669 at a meeting in Bristol.

The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period.

Another report suggested that in 1669, Tavernier sold this large blue diamond along with approximately one thousand other diamonds to King Louis XIV of France for 220, 000 livres, the equivalent of 147 kilograms of pure gold.

Elm Park, purchased in 1854 and laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, was not only the first public park in the city ( after the 8-acre ( 32, 000 m² ) City Common from 1669 ) but also one of the first public parks in the U. S. Both the City Common and Elm Park are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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 ).

The Bedford Estate was expanded in 1669 to include Bloomsbury, when Lord Russell married Lady Rachel Vaughan, one of the daughters of the 4th Earl of Southampton.

It shows the outline of the local church, Rennebu kirke ( erected 1669 ), which is one of the oldest ( and very few ) churches in Norway based on a Y-shaped outline.

He intrigued against James, Duke of York, against Sir William Coventry — one of the ablest statesmen of the time, whose fall he procured by provoking him to send him a challenge — and against the Duke of Ormonde, who was dismissed in 1669.

He was elected one of the Commissioners for Edinburghshire and Lord of the Articles in the parliament of 1669.

In 1816, it was merged with the Académie de musique ( Academy of Music, founded in 1669 ) and the Académie d ' architecture ( Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671 ), to form the Académie des beaux-arts, one of the five academies of the Institut de France.

After giving birth to one further child, Henrietta, in 1669, Anne gave birth to her youngest child in 1671, another daughter, whom she named Catherine.

Snell's methods were taken up by Jean Picard who in 1669 – 70 surveyed one degree of latitude along the Paris Meridian using a chain of thirteen triangles stretching north from Paris to the clocktower of Sourdon, near Amiens.

Ashley took an interest in colonial ventures and was one of the Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina ; in 1669, Ashley and Locke collaborated in writing the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina.

Ashley, in his role as one of the eight Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina, along with his secretary, John Locke, drafted the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which were adopted by the eight Lords Proprietor in March 1669.

His late Return of the Prodigal Son ( 1662 – 1669, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg ) is one of his most popular works.

Pietro da Cortona, also called Pietro Berrettini, born Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, ( 1 November 1596 / 716 May 1669 ) was the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time and, along with his contemporaries and rivals Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

In 1669 he succeeded Giovanni Cassini as astronomy teacher at the observatory of Panzano, near Modena, where one of his duties was to compile an astrological almanac.

However, one James Stuart or don Giacopo Stuardo, appeared in Naples 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.

The first one was built from 1647 to 1669.

From this same period are the two lateral portals of the main facade and a third one the left side of the church, that hosts a restored Lombard bas-relief ; the central portal dates from 1669.

It is home to one of the older religious communities in the United States, organized by dissenters from Boston's First Church in 1669, and from that time known as the Third Church in Boston.

He had refused in March 1669 a situation offered to him in Ireland by the surveyor-general, Sir James Shaen, and about the same time married one of two daughters of William Austen, head cook to Charles II.

While this crossing was intended to replace the ferry service provided in the same area from approximately 1669 onward, the local population eventually bridled over the toll, and popular sentiment culminated in the construction of the “ Farmers ’ Free Bridge ” further south along the Spuyten Duyvil Creek in 1758.

: First recorded performance: according to the 1669 records for the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the play had recently been performed at Blackfriars, but no further information is given ; earliest definite performance in 1759 when it was staged by David Garrick.

In 1663, it became part of New France, a royal province of French Empire, and northeastern Ohio was further explored by Robert La Salle in 1669.

Muggleton made a further journey to these areas, and to Leicestershire, in 1669.

In 1666 he was appointed preacher at Middelburg in the Netherlands, but in 1669 was dismissed for his theological views.

* July 22 – Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England ( b. c. 1669 )

* Jean Desmynieres ( 1666 – 67 ) and Lewis Desmynieres ( 1669 – 70 ), Huguenot Lord Mayors of Dublin

In 1667, he exchanged his office as Vice-Chamberlain with Lord Anglesey for that of Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, an office which he sold in 1669 for £ 11, 000.

* Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton ( 1669 – 1725 ), Lord Treasurer of Ireland

He was offered the post of Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1660 but was unwilling to serve, and was Lord Lieutenant in 1669 – 1670 ; from 1661 to 1673 he was Lord Privy Seal although he did not exercise his office after his return from Ireland.

In 1669 Graham's maternal uncle, David Carnegie, Lord Lour, obtained him an appointment as a Commissioner of Excise and Justice of the Peace for Angus.

Gordon's great-grandfather, the first Duke, was the husband of Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Lord Henry Howard, who had been created Baron Howard of Castle Rising in 1669 and Earl of Norwich in 1672.

It was created in 1669 for the Scottish soldier and politician William Cochrane, 1st Lord Cochrane of Dundonald, along with the subsidiary title of Lord Cochrane of Paisley and Ochiltree, with remainder to his heirs male, failing which to his heirs female without division who should bear or assume the name of Cochrane, and in failure thereof to his heirs general.

In 1669 the people of the town successfully petitioned King Charles II and in 1670 he granted the Lord of the Manor of Doddington a Royal Charter endowing the right to hold a market with two annual fairs, in spite of the opposition of Wisbech Corporation.

* Alexander Elphinstone, 7th Lord Elphinstone ( 1647 – 1669 )

* Thomas Nicolson, 4th Lord Napier ( 1669 – 1688 ) ( the only Lord Napier who held the Nicolson Baronetcy, from 1670 to 1688 )

* James Rollo, 2nd Lord Rollo ( 1600 – 1669 )

* Sir Thomas Nicolson, 4th Lord Napier, 4th Baronet ( 1669 – 1688 )

* William Maclellan, 4th Lord Kirkcudbright ( d. 1669 )

Christopher Fleming, 22nd of Slane, 17th Lord, Viscount Longford ( 1669 – 14 July 1726 ), was the last Fleming Lord of Slane.

In 1669, at age 30, he married Rachel ( 1636 – 1723 ), second daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, and widow of Lord Vaughan ( c. 1639 – 1667 ), elder son of Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery.