1669

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Decades: 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s

Years: 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 - 1669 - 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674

• Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary.

Births

Deaths

• September 10 - Henrietta Maria, Dowager Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, Princess of France and Navarra
• October 4 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
• October 14 - Marc Antonio Cesti, Italian musical composer.
• Pieter Cuypers[?]

Publications

• Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens by Jan Swammerdam, groundbreaking work in microscopy as well as entomology