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.

In 1669 the diarist Samuel Pepys kissed the long-deceased queen on his birthday:

The English diarist Samuel Pepys often wrote about the lace used for his, his wife's, and his acquaintances ' clothing, and on May 7, 1669 noted that he intended to remove the gold lace from the sleeves of his coat " as it is fit should ", possibly in order to avoid charges of ostentatious living.

Samuel Pepys thought it " a silly play ", but saw it three times anyway during the period of his diary on 11 September 1661, 6 January 1663, and 20 January 1669.

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.

" I perceive ," writes Pepys on 23 August 1667, " Sir William Coventry is the man and nothing done till he comes ", and on his removal in 1669 the duke of Albemarle, no friendly or partial critic, declares that " nothing now would be well done.

Elisabeth Pepys ( Elisabeth de St. Michel ) ( 1640 – 1669 ) was the wife of Samuel Pepys, whom she married in 1655, shortly before her fifteenth birthday.

In 1669, Captain Richard Cobb had a banquet in his house ( to celebrate both his marriage to Mary Gorham and his election to the Convention of Assistance ), serving wild turkey with sauce made from wild cranberries.

In 1679, Blow, who had been appointed organist of Westminster Abbey in 1669, resigned his office in favour of his pupil.

4 May 1669 ), married and had issue:

At the end of October 1669 Clement IX fell ill after receiving news that the Venetian fortress of Candia in Crete had surrendered to the Turks.

By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world had ever seen, with over 150 merchant ships, 40 warships, 50, 000 employees, a private army of 10, 000 soldiers, and a dividend payment of 40 % on the original investment.

Following the completion of the College Library in 1624, the final sides of Third Court were added between 1669 and 1672, after the College had recovered from the trauma of the English Civil War.

Surviving manuscripts of the 1660s also show Newton's interest in planetary motion and that by 1669 he had shown, for a circular case of planetary motion, that the force he called ' endeavour to recede ' ( now called centrifugal force ) had an inverse-square relation with distance from the center.

After several months of observing, in 1669, Hooke believed that the desired result had been achieved.

With his appointment as King's Surveyor of Works in 1669, he had a presence in the general process of rebuilding the city, but was not directly involved with the rebuilding of houses or companies ' halls.

* 1669 – Nicolas Steno puts forward his theory that sedimentary strata had been deposited in former seas, and that fossils were organic in origin

Early work had been done by alchemist Hennig Brandt, who discovered the inflammable nature of phosphorus in 1669.

* César, Duke of Vendôme ( 1594 – 1665 ), married Françoise de Lorraine ( 1592 – 1669 ) and had issue.

Her favourite courtier was Emerentia von Düben ( 1669 – 1743 ), her old nurse, who had been ennobled and made lady-in-waiting in 1707 and with whom she had a close relationship all her life ; Düben acted as her advisor, her comfort and support, and was not said to have abused her influence-they were described as sisters.

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

Similar institutions were often established for other arts: Rome had the Accademia di Santa Cecilia for music from 1585 ; Paris had the Académie Royale de Musique from 1669 and the Académie d ' architecture from 1671.

The surviving map of that 1741 survey, a plat, by County Surveyor Robert Brooke, revealed the estate had been grossly mis-measured in April 1669, and it contained only about 4, 200 acres ( 17 km² ), not the conveyed in the 1674 land grant.

After François Diroys who knew both of them had involved Simon in commenting on the work, Simon's criticisms from 1669 aroused indignation in Arnauld's camp.

Sir John Nelthorpe, a local landowner who had fought in the civil war for Parliament, bequeathed some of his estate in 1669 for the foundation and maintenance of a free school in the town.

John and Mary Evelyn had eight children: Richard ( 1652 – 1658 ), John Standsfield ( 1653 – 1654 ), John ( the younger ) ( 1655 – 1699 ), George ( 1657 – 1658 ), Richard ii ( 1664 ), Mary ( 1665 – 1685 ), Elizabeth ( 1667 – 1685 ) and Susanna ( 1669 – 1754 ).

In March 1672, Verro crossed the Channel on the recommendation of Ralph Montagu, who had been English Ambassador Extraodinary in Paris since 1669.

In 1669, Owen wrote a spirited remonstrance to the Congregationalists in New England, who, under the influence of Presbyterianism, had shown themselves persecutors.

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.

The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina were adopted in March 1669 by the eight Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina, which included most of the land between what is now Virginia and Florida.

Of his critical essays, the best known are: Observations sur les poèmes d ' Homère et de Virgile ( Paris, 1669 ); Réflexions sur l ' usage de l ' éloquence de ce temps ( Paris, 1672 ); Réflexions sur la poétique d ' Aristote et sur les ouvrages des poétes anciens et modernes ( Paris, 1674 ).

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.

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.

By 1669, the Dutch East India Company was the richest private company in history, with a huge fleet of merchant ships and warships, tens of thousands of employees, a private army consisting of thousands of soldiers, and a reputation on the part of its stockholders for high dividend payments.

However, after the Hanseatic League was de facto disbanded in 1669, Lübeck still remained an important trading town on the Baltic Sea.

After the funeral of Pope Clement IX, sixty-two electors entered into conclave on 20 December 1669.

Year 1669 ( MDCLXIX ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

* 1669 – a continuation of his work on the spring of air

Ladies such as Mme de Sévigné forsook him when Bourdaloue dawned on the Paris horizon in 1669, though Fénelon and La Bruyère, two much sounder critics, refused to follow their example.

Two other collections, Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux ( c. 1669 ) and Livre de tablature [...] de Mr. Gaultier Sr. de Nève et de Mr. Gaultier son cousin ( c. 1672 ) both begin with basic instructions on lute playing.

Self Portrait with Two Circles, oil on canvas, Rembrandt c. 1665 – 1669.

Possibly the best source, however brief, on Standish's origins and early life is a short passage recorded by Nathaniel Morton, secretary of Plymouth Colony, who wrote in his New England's Memorial, published in 1669, that Standish:

John Woodcock and family established a small settlement in North Attleborough in 1669, which subsisted on agriculture, fishing and hunting.

Woodbridge was settled in the early autumn of 1664 and was granted a charter on June 1, 1669 by King Charles II of England, and reincorporated on October 31, 1693.

In 1669 a failed attempt on his life was made by a Tromp supporter, trying to stab him with a bread knife in the entrance-hall of his house.

Pursuant to the Culpeper land grant, the original 1669 surveyor was charged with estimating an area of 5, 000 acres ( 20 km² ) and then blazing a straight-line " back " boundary along a tree line between the winding courses of Dogue Run and Little Hunting Creek. Map of the estate, drawn by Washington More importantly, this surviving May 1741 property survey by Brooke reveals that the location of the present-day mansion house was then vacant, with the Washingtons depicted as having their Quarter alongside Little Hunting Creek ( as was shown on a similar, larger-scale Potomac River survey of 1738 ).

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.

Nicholas Steno established the theoretical basis for stratigraphy when he reintroduced the law of superposition and introduced the principle of original horizontality and the principle of lateral continuity in a 1669 work on the fossilization of organic remains in layers of sediment.