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Year 1690 (MDCXC) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1690

January–June

• 6 January – Joseph, son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of the Romans.
• 7 January – The first recorded full peal is rung, at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, marking a new era in change ringing.
• 14 January – The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
• 3 February – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
• 20 May – England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II.
• 8 June – Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
• June – William III lands in Ireland to confront James VII & II.

July–December

• 10 July – Anglo-Dutch navy defeated by the French in the Battle of Beachy Head (also known as the Battle of Bévéziers), giving rise to fears of a Jacobite invasion of England.
• 12 July – Battle of the Boyne, north of Dublin. James VII & II is defeated and sails back to France. The rebellion in Ireland continues for a further year until the Orange army gains control.
• 26 July – French landing party raids and burns Teignmouth in Devon. However, with the loss of James VII & II's position in Ireland, any plans for a real invasion are soon shelved and Teignmouth is the last-ever French attack on England.
• 25 September – The only issue of Publick Occurrences is published in Boston, Massachusetts, before being suppressed by the colonial authorities.
• 6 October–12 – Massachusetts Puritans led by Sir William Phips besiege the city of Quebec. The siege ends in failure.
• Arsenije III Carnojevic, Patriarch of Serbia, leads the first of the 2 Great Serbian Migrations into the Habsburg Empire, following Ottoman atrocities in Kosovo.
• December – Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri.
• 29 December – An earthquake hits Anconer in the Papal States, Italy.

Undated

• Belgrade recaptured by Ottoman Turks from the Austrians.
• Earliest type of piston steam engine patented by French physicist Denis Papin. It is used for pumping water but is not efficient.
• Arcangelo Corelli publishes the Concerti Grossi.
• Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.
• The Hearth Tax is abolished in Scotland, one year after its abolition in England and Wales.
• An Anglo-Moghul treaty allows the British East India Company to establish a fort and trading settlement on the Hooghly River, which becomes Calcutta.
• Possible year of the disappearance of the island Buise in St. Peter's Flood.

Births

• January 22 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
• January 31 – Thomas Carter, Irish politician (d. 1763)
• February 1 – Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768)
• February 3 – Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (d. 1755)
• March 18 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (d. 1764)
• April 22 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)
• September 12 – Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
• October 29 – Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
• November 24 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
• November 29 – Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
• December 1 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)
• December 22 – Meidingu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)

See also Category: 1690 births.

Deaths

• January 3 – Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
• February 7 – William Morice, English royalist statesman (born c. 1628)
• February 22 – Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)
• April 18 – Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 1643)
• April 25 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610)
• May 21 – John Eliot, English Puritan missionary (b. 1604)
• May 27 – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
• July 1 – George Walker, Irish national hero (b. 1645)
• September 2 – Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
• October 3 – Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (born c.1648)
• November 17 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)

See also Category: 1690 deaths.

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