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Year 1699 (MDCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, or a common year starting on Sunday (Julian-1699) of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1699

January to June

• January 26 – Treaty of Karlowitz is concluded. The Republic of Venice, Poland and Austria sign a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Turks cede to Austria all their former territories in Transylvania, Slavonia, Croatia and the whole of Hungary except for the Banat of Temesvar. The Peloponnese and Dalmatia are ceded to Venice. Large parts of the Ukraine are ceded to Poland. The treaty marks a significant stage in the decline of the Ottoman Empire that has dominated eastern Europe since the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
• February 4 – 350 rebellious Streltsi are executed in Moscow.
• March 4 – Jews are expelled from Lübeck, Germany.
• April 13 – The 10th Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh, creates the Khalsa.
• May 1 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville founds the first European settlement in the Mississippi River Valley, at Fort Maurepas (Ocean Springs, Mississippi).
• June 11 – England, France and the Netherlands agree on the Treaty of London (also known as the Second Partition Treaty of Spain).
• June 14 – Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.

July to December

• 6 July – Pirate Capt. William Kidd is captured in Boston.
• 25 August – Death of Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway since 1670. He is succeeded by Frederick IV (to 1730).
• 22 September – Citizens of Rotterdam strike over the high price of butter.
• 22 November – Treaty of Preobrasjensku: Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden.
• 3 December – Baron Jacob Hop is appointed as the treasurer-general of The Hague.
• 20 December – Peter the Great orders the Russian New Year changed from 1 September to 1 January.

Undated

• William Dampier explores the northwest coast of Australia.
• The Edinburgh Gazette is founded.
• England's Tory government reduces the standing army to 7,000 men who must all be British by birth. This causes friction between Parliament and the King, whose Dutch Guards are deported.
• Billingsgate Fish Market is sanctioned as a permanent institution by Act of Parliament.

Births

• March 23 – John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777)
• March 25 – Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
• May 1 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
• May 13 – Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
• November 2 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
• November 25 – Pierre Subleyras, French painter (d. 1749)
• December 10 – King Christian VI of Denmark (d. 1746)
• December 19 – William Bowyer (printer), English printer (d. 1777)
• date unknown – Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric (d. 1746)

Deaths

• January 21 – Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
• March 12 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
• April 21 – Jean Racine, French dramatist who wrote several great tragedies based on Greek and Roman literature (b. 1639)
• April 22 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (b. 1646)
• May 12 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
• May 15 – Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councillor (b. 1631)
• June 22 – Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
• September 26 – Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (b. 1618)
• August 25 – Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1646)
• November 29 – Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)

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