What is 1669?
{{Year nav|1669}} {{Year in various calendars|1669}} {{Year article header|1669}} ==Events== * [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Mount Etna]] erupts, destroying the town of Nicolosi and killing 20,000 people. * [[July]] &ndash; The [[Hanseatic League]], 400 years after it was formed, holds its last official meeting in [[Lübeck]]. ===Date unknown=== * [[Phosphorus]] is discovered by [[Hennig Brand]]. * [[Antonio Stradivari]] makes his first violin. ==Deaths== * [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Pope Clement IX]] (b. [[1600]]) [[Category:1669| ]]