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1699

In The (The Holy Science), Sri Yukteswar concludes that we are currently in the beginning stages of Dwapara Yuga, which began around 1699 A.D. This now puts us in the year 311 Dwapara according to Sri Yukteswar.


1739 English cricket season

The earliest known cricket picture was first displayed this year, an engraving called The Game of Cricket by Hubert-François Gravelot (1699–1773).

Adlung

Jakob Adlung (1699–1762), German classical organist, composer, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, and music theorist

Alexandre Thierry

Alexandre Thierry died without an heir in 1699, and was succeeded by his nephew, François Thierry, son of Jean.

Annibale Annibaldi

Duchesne, Histoire de tous les cardinaux français de naissance (Paris, 1699), II, 277, 278;

Baboquivari Peak Wilderness

Baboquivari Peak was mentioned in the journals of Jesuit missionary Padre Kino, who made many expeditions into this region of the Sonoran Desert, beginning in 1699 and establishing Spanish Missions in the area.

Bhai Mani Singh

Bhai Mani Singh who was under the presence of Guru Gobind Singh in 1690s had taken over the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar in mid-1699 from Minas.

Chardin

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, (1699–1779), French painter noted for his still life works

Charles Calvert

Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (1699–1751), Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland

Charles Étienne Louis Camus

Charles Étienne Louis Camus (25 August 1699 – 2 February 1768), was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Crécy-en-Brie, near Meaux.

Château de Champs-sur-Marne

The Château de Champs, at Champs-sur-Marne was built in its present form for the treasurer Charles Renouard de la Touane in 1699 by Pierre Bullet, architecte du roi.

Christine Charlotte of Württemberg

Christine Charlotte of Württemberg (21 October 1645, Stuttgart – 16 May 1699, Bruchhausen) was a princess of Württemberg by birth and a princess consort of East Frisia, married in 1662 to George Christian, Prince of East Frisia.

Countess Charlotte Johanna of Waldeck-Wildungen

Charlotte Johanna of Waldeck-Wildungen (13 December 1664 in Arolsen – 1 February 1699 in Hildburghausen) was a daughter of Count Josias II of Waldeck-Wildungen and his wife, Wilhelmine Christine, a daughter William of Nassau-Hilchenbach.

Elisabeth Charlotte, Countess of Holzappel

She allowed refugee Huguenots and Waldensians to settle in the county, and in 1699 founded the Waldensian settlement Charlottenberg near Holzappel which was named after her.

Elizabeth Germain

Jonathan Swift was chaplain to her father from 1699 to 1701, while the Earl of Berkeley was lord justice in Ireland, and Lady Betty and Swift continued their friendship during the various times he spent in England.

Ferdinande Henriette, Countess of Stolberg-Gedern

Ferdinande Henriette, Countess of Stolberg-Gedern, born 2 October 1699 at Gedern, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, then in the Holy Roman Empire, was a daughter of Louis Christian, Count of Stolberg-Gedern, and Princess Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.

First Whig Junto

Danby, within months created Duke of Leeds, remained in office, under a diminished role while still Lord President of the Council, but the Junto controlled the government of England from 1694 to 1699.

François-Marie Renaud d'Avène des Meloizes

Captain François-Marie Renaud d'Avène des Méloizes (1655– April 22, 1699) was a French Cavalry officer who came to New France in 1685 in command of the Troupes de Marine and led the successful expedition against the Senecas.

Frederick Charles of Stolberg-Gedern

After his father's death in 1710 he received by his father's will dated 23 January 1699 the Lordship of Gedern and one sixth of the Lordship of Rochefort.

Gisela Agnes of Rath

In 1699, Emmanuel Lebrecht gave her the castle, city and district of Nienburg as a personal possession for life.

Gunterstein

Gunterstein is a castle in Breukelen, on the river Vecht, that was the former home of the rich Dutch widow Magdalena Poulle (1626–1699).

Hawes

The town was granted a charter to hold markets by King William III in 1699.

Hendrik Niehoff

In 1699, Georg Böhm became organist here and, beginning soon after (according to Christoph Wolff) gave Johann Sebastian Bach lessons on this instrument during Bach's student tenure at the Michaeliskirche from 1700 through 1702.

Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force

He died 19 April 1699 at Château de la Boulaye, near Évreux in Normandy.

Jeanne Guyon

At Paris, the police, however, arrested her on 24 December 1695 and imprisoned her, first at Vincennes, then in a convent at Vaugirard, and then in the Bastille, where on 23 August 1699, she again signed a retraction of her theories and an undertaking to refrain from further spreading them.

Joseph Galien

Joseph Galien OP (born 1699, Saint-Paulien, France) was a Dominican professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Avignon, meteorologist, physicist, and writer on aeronautics.

Joseph Haines

He wrote several plays, none of which had notable artistic or commercial success, and gave several of his best interpretations (according to Anthony Aston) in the 1690s, including Serringe the doctor in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696) and the original Tom Errand in George Farquhar's immensely popular The Constant Couple (1699).

Joseph Ignaz Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt

Joseph Ignaz Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt was born in Brussels on January 22, 1699, the son of Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt and his wife Princess Marie Therese von Croÿ (1673–1714), daughter of Ferdinand François Joseph von Croÿ, 3rd Duke of Havré.

Leopold Eberhard, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard

Leopold Eberhard of Württemberg-Montbéliard (21 May 1670, Montbéliard - 25 March 1723, Montbéliard), was the last ruler of the Duchy of Württemberg-Montbéliard from 1699 until his death.

Lipka Tatars

As a reaction to restrictions on their religious freedoms and the erosion of their ancient rights and privileges, the Lipka Tatar regiments stationed in the Podolia region of south-east Poland abandoned the Commonwealth at the start of the late 17th century Polish–Ottoman Wars that were to last to end of the 17th century with the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699.

Lobb

Stephen Lobb (c.1647–1699), English nonconformist minister and controversialist

Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain

Louis Phélypeaux (1643–1727), marquis de Phélypeaux (1667), comte de Maurepas (1687), comte de Pontchartrain (1699), known as the chancellor de Pontchartrain, was a French politician.

Magnus von Wedderkop

In 1699 when Magnus was a Holstein Gottorp minister in Kiel, he bought Tangstedt, which included the villages of Wilstede, Duvenstede, Mellingsted and Lemsahl.

Mardi Gras

The expedition, led by Iberville, entered the mouth of the Mississippi River on the evening of March 2, 1699, Lundi Gras.

Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau

Renata was inducted in the convent of Unter-Zell in Bavaria in 1699, were she made herself known for her great piety and was appointed Sub Prioress in 1740.

Mavrocordatos family

Alexander Mavrocordatos - son of the founder, styled "Serene Highness" (1699) by Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

Monarchy of Liechtenstein

After some time, the family was able to arrange the purchase of the minuscule Herrschaft ("Lordship") of Schellenberg and countship of Vaduz (in 1699 and 1712 respectively) from the Hohenems.

Paul Gottlieb Werlhof

Paul Gottlieb Werlhof (March 24, 1699 – July 26, 1767) was a German physician and poet who was a native of Helmstedt.

Pierre-Charles Le Sueur

In 1699, he was with the group that ascended the Mississippi River from Biloxi to the "country of the Nadouessioux", stopping to overwinter at Isle Pelée or Fort Perrot above Lake Pepin.

Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel

Ministers who have served the Chapel include Stephen Lobb (1647?-1699), Richard Amner (1736-1803), Rochemont Barbauld, husband of the radical poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), Jeremiah Joyce (1763-1816) and William Hincks (1794-1871).

Sir Francis Kinloch, 3rd Baronet

The son and heir of Sir Francis Kinloch, 2nd Baronet, of Gilmerton, by his spouse Mary, daughter of David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, he succeeded his father in 1699, and married circa 1705, Mary (d. 2 April 1749, Gilmerton House, East Lothian), daughter and co-heiress of Sir James Rocheid, Baronet, of Inverleith (d. after 1704).

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet

In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.

Thomas Fonnereau

Thomas Fonnereau (London, 27 October 1699 – 20 March 1779) was a British businessman and politician, the eldest son of the merchant Claude Fonnereau.

Thomas Knaggs

He was an officiating minister at Holy Trinity, Knightsbridge from 1699 to 1713.

Triplex Confinium

There was an actual place named the Triplex Confinium after the treaty of peace of Karlowitz (Sremski Karlovci) in 1699 and today it is a territory belonging to the Republics of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (the very point where empires met was Medveđak, today Medveđa Glavica, at the top of Debelo Brdo, a mountain northeast of Knin).

Tristram Beresford

Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet (1669–1701), his grandson, Irish MP for Londonderry County 1692–1699

Vincent Wing

The Olympia Domata for 1670 was edited by his elder son, Vincent Wing; and the numbers for 1704 to 1727 by his nephew, John Wing of Pickworth, Rutland, coroner of the county, who published in 1693 Heptarchia Mathematica, and in 1699 an enlarged version of his uncle's Art of Surveying, supplemented by Scientia Stellarum, Calculation of the Planets' Places, etc.

William Lowth

Early work brought him to the notice of Peter Mew, bishop of Winchester, who made him his chaplain, gave him a prebendal stall at Winchester on 8 October 1696, and presented him to the benefice of Buriton with Petersfield, Hampshire, in 1699, which he held until his death.

William Temple

Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628–1699), British politician, employer of Jonathan Swift


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