In drama, Kong Shangren's Kunqu ( southern ) opera The Peach Blossom Fan, completed in 1699, portrayed the tragic downfall of the Ming dynasty in romantic terms.

With the decision to relocated the government inland to Williamsburg in 1699, a grand new Capitol building was completed in November 1705.

The remodelling and expansion of original building into a cruciform church is believed to have been completed in 1699, although some sources claim 1738.

In 1699, when he completed his apprenticeship, he married Mary Sergeant ( 1678-1718 ) and moved to Bristol, where he set himself up as a malt mill maker.

During the age of Absolutism, especially in France, equestrian statues were popular with rulers ; Louis XIV was typical in having one outside his Palace of Versailles, and the over life-size statue in the Place Vendôme in Paris by François Girardon ( 1699 ) is supposed to be the first large modern equestrian statue to be cast in a single piece ; it was destroyed in the French Revolution, though there is a small version in the Louvre.

Place Vendôme was laid out in 1702 as a monument to the glory of the armies of Louis XIV, the Grand Monarque and called Place des Conquêtes, to be renamed Place Louis le Grand, when the conquests proved temporary ; an over life-size equestrian statue of the king was set up in its centre, donated by the city authorities ; this was by François Girardon ( 1699 ) and is supposed to have been the first large modern equestrian statue to be cast in a single piece.

The statue of Renommée, or the fame of the king, riding the horse Pegasus, ( 1699 ) by Antoine Coysevox ( 1640-1720 ) at the west entrance of the Garden.

The statue of King Bladud overlooking the King's Bath carries the date of 1699, but its inclusion in earlier pictures shows that it is much older than this.

The statue of King Bladud overlooking the Roman Baths ( Bath ) | King's Bath at Bath carries the date of 1699, but its inclusion in earlier pictures shows that it is much older than this.

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.

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first imposed by King Louis XIV in 1695 as a temporary measure to finance the War of the League of Augsburg, and thus repealed in 1699.

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

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.

In 1699, Louis XIV gave the Academy its first rules and named it Académie royale des sciences.

In 1699, The Adventures of Telemachus was published and Louis XIV was enraged by this work, which appeared to question the very foundations of his regime.

On 20 January 1699, Louis XIV gave the Company its first rules.

* 1 November 1685 – 2 September 1699: Louis Boucherat, Count of Compans

In 1699 Louis Ellies Dupin discussed the possibility "... that those two verses beginning with the same words, it was easier for the copiers to omit one by negligence, nothing being more usual than when the same word is in two periods that follow one another, for the copier to pass from the word of the first period to that which follows in the second.

A younger son, Louis Antoine de Noailles ( 1651 – 1729 ), was made archbishop of Paris in 1695, holding this high dignity until his death ; he was made a cardinal in 1699.

Sceaux castle was originally built by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the minister of finance to Louis XIV and purchased by Louis ' illegitimate son, the duke of Maine in 1699.

* Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, general field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire, nicknamed Turk Louis for his successes against the Turks and now in possession of a great war prize, in 1699 altered plans for a hunting lodge being built near the village of Rastatt since 1697.

Located nearby is Cape St. Croix, a rock island in the river where Father De Montigny erected a cross in 1699.

Elector Frederick III ( as Frederick I King in Prussia from 1701 on ) had a local administrative building erected in 1699.

In 1699, thanks to English mediation, the war ended with the peace of Karlowitz by which Venice retained possession of the 7 Ionian islands, Butrinto and Parga, the Morea, Spinalonga and Suda, Tenos, Santa Maura and Aegina and ceased to pay a tribute for Zante, but restored Lepanto to the Ottoman sultan.

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

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

Yale returned to London in 1699, and resided at Plas Grono, near Wrexham, a mansion bought by his father.

They were rediscovered by Guillaume Amontons ( 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 Parliament was initially influenced by John Pym ( 1584 – 1699 ) and his supporters.

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.

** Richard III ( 1699 play ), a play by Colley Cibber

They were rediscovered by Guillaume Amontons ( 1699 ) and were further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 1785 ).

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

The expedition, led by Iberville, entered the mouth of the Mississippi River on the evening of March 2, 1699, Lundi Gras.

Following the successful defense of Vienna in 1683 led by King of Poland John III Sobieski, a series of campaigns resulted in the return of all of Hungary to Austrian control by the Treaty of Carlowitz 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.

They were rediscovered by Guillaume Amontons ( 1699 ) and were further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 1785 ).

A number of Old Master works, including as drawings by Pietro Perugino ( 1450 – 1523 ), Vittore Carpaccio ( 1465 – 1526 ) and Mattia Preti ( 1613 – 1699 ), may be viewed under controlled lighting.