Frederick IV of Denmark-Norway, another cousin of Charles XII, succeeded Christian V in 1699 and continued his anti-Swedish policies.

The suffrages being equally divided between Fabricius and Sebastian Edzardus, one of his opponents, the appointment was decided by lot in favour of Edzardus ; but in 1699 Fabricius succeeded Vincent Placcius in the chair of rhetoric and ethics, a post which he held until his death, refusing invitations to Greifswald, Kiel, Giessen, and Wittenberg.

He outlived his son Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus ( c. 1609 – 1655 ) and was succeeded by Archibald's son James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas ( 1646 – 1699 ).

On the death of Lefort in 1699, Menshikov succeeded him as Peter's prime favorite and confidant.

On Leforts death, in March 1699, he succeeded him as Field Marshal.

Simon van der Stel retired in 1699 and was succeeded by his son Willem Adriaan van der Stel.

In 1699 Talbot succeeded John Hough as bishop of Oxford ( consecrated 24 September ), retaining his deanery in commendam ; he had been made D. D.

Later Samuel Clarke published his The Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures Asserted ( 1699 ) in reply to Simon.

* Anonymous-A Compleat Key to The Dispensary ( in re Samuel Garth's 1699 poem )

* Samuel Chew ( justice ) ( 1699 – 1744 ), physician, Chief Justice of colonial Delaware

This opposition would be satirised by Sir Samuel Garth in The Dispensary in 1699.

He had already been created Lord Boyle of Kelburn, Stewartoun, Cumbrae, Finnick, Largs and Dalry in 1699, and was made Lord Boyle of Stewartoun, Cumbraes, Fenwick, Largs and Dalry and Viscount of Kelburn at the same time as he was granted the earldom.

Patrum qui temporibus apostolicis floruerunt opera (" Works of the holy fathers who flourished in the apostolic times "), which title was abbreviated to Bibliotheca Patrum Apostolicorum by L. J. Ittig in his edition ( Leipzig, 1699 ) of the same writings.

He had already been created Lord Portmore in 1699 and was made Lord Colyear and Viscount of Milsington at the same time as he was granted the earldom, also in the Peerage of Scotland.

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.

The conduct of foreign affairs was at the same time entrusted to him, and from 1699 to his death he was the premier minister of the tsar.

The Reverend John Hancock, grandfather of the American revolutionary leader of the same name, purchased this site in 1699.

France controlled this vast area from 1699 until 1762, the year it gave the territory to its ally Spain.

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.

Savery's original patent of July 1698 gave 14 years ' protection ; the next year, 1699, an Act of Parliament was passed which extended his protection for a further 21 years.

Wright built a log cabin nearby on a tract of land first granted to George Beale by William Penn in 1699, and stayed for more than a year.

In late 1699 Charles sent a minor detachment to reinforce his brother-in-law Frederick IV of Holstein-Gottorp, who was attacked by Danish forces the following year.

Plainfield was incorporated in 1699 as the town of Quinebaug and renamed the following year to its current name.

The year 1699 in literature involved some significant events.

* was a 6-gun sloop launched in 1699 and wrecked later that year.

Until 1699, it was an important inland river port but, in that year, the Aire was made navigable as far as Leeds, which soon surpassed it.

She visited Holstein-Gottorp in 1699 and remained there for about a year, but in 1700 she returned to Sweden, where she was second in line to the Swedish throne and presumptive heir.

The year 1699 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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.

Some of these included, but were not limited to the Schaghticoke enclave, which began in the year 1699, after old Joseph Chuse married Sarah Mahwee ( Mahweeyeuh ).

Soon in August 1699 he had been appointed as the Governor of Fort St. George, in the year 1702 when the fort itself was besieged by Daud Khan of the Carnatic the Mughal Empire's local Subedar ( lieutenant ), Thomas Pitt was instructed to vie for peace.

In 1699 he published a mock-heroic poem, The Dispensary, in six cantos, which had an instant success, passing through three editions within a year.

In 1698 Calvert was able to secure a license to return to England, and on 2 January 1699 he married the twenty year old Lady Charlotte Lee, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield and Lady Charlotte FitzRoy.

Poland was to keep the town until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, with short interruptions in 1698 / 1699 and 1703: In 1698, Polish king August the Strong permitted Prussian troops to siege and storm Elbing, but the Prussian troops withdrew in the following year when Russia mediated its exchange for the Polish Crown Jewels as a security for the bills receivable.

However, in his own words, he was born ' in the last year of the last century ', making the year 1699 the year of his birth.

While his second wife gave his birth year as 1690 on the memorial tablet installed in St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, making him 107 at his death ; others have suggested that he was born in 1699 or 1710.

Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri at age 48 in the year 1699.

This five year trip would lead to his best known six-volume book, Giro Del Mondo ( 1699 ).

He was equally unsuccessful in pursuing the Mason land claims, and was replaced in 1699 by the Earl of Bellomont.

Models in weather-resistant stucco were set up in 1699, replaced by marbles when they were finished in 1705.

He learned philosophy in the Jesuits ' college at Poitiers, and in 1699 went to Bourges to study civil law and mathematics under the charge of an uncle, canon of La Sainte-Chapelle.