1669 in England

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles II
• Parliament – Cavalier

  Events

• 31 May – citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last entry in his diary
• 29 October – Isaac Newton appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
• 26 November – navigator John Narborough sets sail from Deptford to conduct a voyage of exploration in the South Seas.

  Undated

• Robert Boyle discovers the chemical element now known as phosphorus.
• Christopher Wren appointed Surveyor of the King's Works.
• Count Cosimo, grand duke of Tuscany, visits the Tower of London and gives the Yeomen Warders the nickname "Beefeaters".

  Publications

• The cookbook The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened.

  Births

• probable – Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, statesman

  Deaths

• 10 March – John Denham, poet
• 10 September – Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I
• 24 October – William Prynne, Puritan leader
• 16 December – Nathaniel Fiennes, politician