1690

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

• January 6 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans.
• January 7 - The first recorded full peal was rung, at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, marking a new era in change ringing.
• January 14 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
• February 3 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
• May 20 - England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II.
• June 26 - The French invade the small town of Teignmouth in South West England, in their last attack on England.

July - December

• July 1 - The Battle of the Boyne, in Ireland.
• October 6-12 - Massachusetts Puritans led by Sir William Phips besiege the city of Quebec. The siege ends in failure.
• Patriarch of Serbia, Arsenije III Carnojevic, leads the first of the 2 Great Serbian Migrations into 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.
• December 29 - earthquake in Anconer in Papal States, Italy.

Undated

• Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.
• Hearth Tax abolished in Scotland, one year after abolition in England and Wales.

Births

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

See also Category: 1690 births.

Deaths

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

See also Category: 1690 deaths.af:1690

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