1699 (MDCXCIX) was a common yearstarting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendarand a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1699th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 699th year of the 2ndmillennium, the 99th year of the 17thcentury, and the 10th and last year of the 1690s decade. As of the start of 1699, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

• 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 settlement in the Mississippi River Valley.
• William Dampier goes to and discovers what is at the northwest coast of Australia.

• March 23 – John Bartram the American botanist (died 1777)
• March 25 – Johann Adolf Hasse the German composer (died 1783)
• April 17 - Robert Blair the 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 painter (died 1779)
• November 25 - Pierre Subleyras the French painter (died 1749)
• December 10 – King Christian VI of Denmark (died 1746)

• January 21 – Obadiah Walker the English writer (born 1616)

• March 12 – Peder Griffenfeld the 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 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 – Simon Arnauld de Pomponne the French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (born 1618).
• August 25 – Christian V the King of Denmark and Norway (born 1646)
• November 29 – Patrick Gordon the Scottish general (born 1635)