What is 1699?
{{Year nav|1699}} {{Year in various calendars|1699}} {{Year article header|1699}} == Events == * [[January 26]] – [[Treaty of Karlowitz]] [[signed]]. * [[March 30]] – the tenth [[Sikh]] Master, [[Guru Gobind Singh]] made the [[Khalsa]]. * [[May 1]] – [[Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville]] starts the first European [[Human settlement|settlement]] in the [[Mississippi River]] Valley. * [[William Dampier]] goes to and discovers what is at the northwest coast of [[Australia]]. [[File:William Dampier.jpg|thumb|[[William Dampier]]]] <br /> == Births == * [[March 23]] – [[John Bartram]] the [[United States|American]] [[botanist]] (died [[1777]]) * [[March 25]] – [[Johann Adolf Hasse]] the [[Germany|German]] [[composer]] (died [[1783]]) * [[April 17]] - [[Robert Blair]] the [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[poet]] and [[cleric]] (died [[1746]]) * [[May 1]] – [[Hans Joachim von Zieten]] the [[Prussian]] [[field marshal]] (died [[1786]]) * [[May 13]] – [[Marquis of Pombal]] the [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (died [[1782]]) * [[November 2]] – [[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] the [[French people|French]] [[painter]] (died [[1779]]) * [[November 25]] - [[Pierre Subleyras]] the French painter (died [[1749]]) * [[December 10]] – King [[Christian VI of Denmark]] (died [[1746]]) == Deaths == [[File:Jean Racine by Savart Head.jpg|thumb|[[Jean Racine]]|alt=]] * [[January 21]] – [[Obadiah Walker]] the [[English people|English]] [[writer]] (born [[1616]]) *[[March 12]] – [[Peder Griffenfeld]] the [[Danish people|Danish]] [[statesman]] (born [[1635]]) *[[April 21]] – [[Jean Racine]] the French [[playwright]] (born [[1639]]) *[[April 22]] – [[Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz]] the German statesman and poet (born [[1646]]) *[[May 12]] – [[Lucas Achtschellinck]] the [[Flemish Region|Flemish]] painter (born [[1626]]) *[[May 15]] – [[Edward Petre]] the English [[Jesuit]] and [[privy councillor]] (born [[1631]]) *[[June 22]] – [[Josiah Child]] the English [[Governor]] of the [[East India Company]] (born [[1630]]) *[[September 26]] – [[