* 1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa-the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints-by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.

The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 2 November 1699 – 6 December 1779 ) was an 18th-century French painter.

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

There was no agreement about this question, although it was talked about it at the negotiations to the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699.

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

This was observed by William Dampier, a British Brigadier visiting the Island in 1699:

But according to another source, the word " Geology " comes from the Norwegian, Mikkel Pedersøn Escholt ( 1600 – 1699 ), who was a priest and scholar.

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.

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first imposed by King Louis XIV in 1695 as a temporary measure to finance the War of the League of Augsburg, and thus repealed in 1699.

The last serving British Ministerial visit was 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 issue was further confused following the death of Joseph Ferdinand of smallpox in 1699 at the age of six, reopening the issue of the Spanish succession.

The rampart was removed in 1699.

This was on March 3, 1699, Mardi Gras, so in honor of this holiday, Iberville named the spot Point du Mardi Gras ( French: " Mardi Gras Point ") and called the nearby tributary Bayou Mardi Gras.

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.

Newton was subsequently given the post of Master of the Mint 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.

Between 16 November 1698 and 26 January 1699, the town of Karlovci was the site of a congress that ended the hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League, a coalition of various European powers including Habsburg Monarchy, Poland, Venice and Russia ; the congress produced the Treaty of Karlowitz.

The result of the treaty was the restoration of Habsburg administration over much of the territory of present-day Serbia, which they had temporarily had during the Great Turkish War between 1688 and 1699, and the effective establishment of the Kingdom of Serbia crownland, which would be acceded to the Ottomans in accordance to the Treaty of Belgrade, which had effectively reverted some parts of the Passarowitz treaty.

In 1699 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

At Magdalene College, Cambridge, he was admitted on 30 March 1699 and elected scholar on 26 December 1702 ; and became a fellow on 13 February 1703 – 4.

He was the fourth son of John Coutts ( 1699 – 1751 ), who carried on business in Edinburgh as a corn factor and negotiator of bills of exchange, and who in 1742 was elected lord provost of the city.

He spent most of his life at Neuchâtel, first as a diacon, then from 1699 a pastor, and finally he was elected deacon.

Though the cooking technique is probably older, the term mirepoix dates from the 18th century and derives, as do many other appellations in French cuisine, from the aristocratic employer of the cook credited with establishing and stabilizing it: in this case, Charles-Pierre-Gaston François de Lévis, duc de Lévis-Mirepoix ( 1699 – 1757 ), French field marshal and ambassador and a member of the noble family of Lévis, lords of Mirepoix in Languedoc since the 11th century.

He was a member of the Irish Parliament and sat for Charleville between 1695 and 1699.

A later traveller Colonel Joshua Fry was born in the town in 1699 before becoming a surveyor, adventurer, mapmaker, soldier, and member of the House of Burgesses, the legislature of the colony of Virginia.

After William became King, he appointed Lumley in rapid succession in 1689 / 90 as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, a member of the Privy Council, Colonel of the 1st Troop of Horse Guards ( until 1699 ), Viscount Lumley of Lumley Castle, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland and Lord Lieutenant of Durham.

Colonel Johann Christoph von Naumann ( 1664 – 1742 ), husband of Catharina Elisabeth Jauch ( 1671 – 1736 ), was a member of the diplomatic mission of the Holy League in the course of the Treaty of Karlowitz 1699 with the Ottoman Empire, which ended the Great Turkish War.

* 1699 – Jean Racine, French dramatist ( b. 1639 )

In 1699 he succeeded Samuel Pufendorf as historiographer to the elector, and the same year replaced his uncle Joseph Ancillon as judge of all the French refugees in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

* 1639 – Jean Racine, French dramatist ( d. 1699 )

* 1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter ( d. 1779 )

* November – Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV ( d. 1699 )

* December 22 – Jean Racine, French dramatist ( d. 1699 )

* December 6 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter ( b. 1699 )

Both Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 1699 – 1779 ) and Jean-Baptiste Greuze ( 1725 – 1805 ), were important French painters of the Rococo era who are considered Anti-Rococo.

The European-American history of Baton Rouge dates from 1699, when French explorer Sieur d ' Iberville leading an exploration party up the Mississippi River saw a reddish cypress pole festooned with bloody animals that marked the boundary between the Houma and Bayou Goula tribal hunting grounds.

She is also the subject of a tragedy by French classical playwright Jean Racine ( 1639 – 1699 ), entitled Andromaque, and a minor character in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.

The first recorded modern usage of the term can be traced to a 1699 book entitled Les Aventures de Telemaque, by the French writer François Fénelon In the book the lead character is that of Mentor.

* Jean Racine ( 1639 – 1699 ), 17th century French dramatist

In 1699 Louisiana was named an administrative district of New France therefore, as far as the Europeans ( France, England and Spain ) were concerned, the area of Jasper County was French territory.

In 1699, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville, a French explorer, was the first European to visit the area of present-day St. Tammany Parish.

The oldest European settlement in the parish was La Balize, where the French built and inhabited a crude fort by 1699 near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Natchitoches was founded as a French outpost on the Red River for trade with Spanish-controlled Mexico ; French traders settled there as early as 1699.

The first permanent settlement in French Louisiana was founded at Fort Maurepas, now in Ocean Springs, Mississippi and referred to as Old Biloxi, in 1699 under the direction of Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville, with Louisiana separated from Spanish Florida at the Perdido River near Pensacola ( founded 1559 and again in 1698 ).

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.

On October 10, 1699, a fleet of eight canoes bearing a party of French explorers entered the mouth of Root River.

Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais ( comte de La Bourdonnais ) ( Saint-Malo, 11 February 1699 – Paris, 10 November 1753 ) was a French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East India Company.