1690

This article is about the year 1690.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1660s  1670s  1680s  – 1690s –  1700s  1710s  1720s
Years:	1687 1688 1689 – 1690 – 1691 1692 1693

1690 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1690 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1690 MDCXC
Ab urbe condita	2443
Armenian calendar	1139 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	6440
Bengali calendar	1097
Berber calendar	2640
English Regnal year	2 Will. & Mar. – 3 Will. & Mar.
Buddhist calendar	2234
Burmese calendar	1052
Byzantine calendar	7198–7199
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4386 or 4326     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4387 or 4327
Coptic calendar	1406–1407
Discordian calendar	2856
Ethiopian calendar	1682–1683
Hebrew calendar	5450–5451
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1746–1747
- Shaka Samvat	1612–1613
- Kali Yuga	4791–4792
Holocene calendar	11690
Igbo calendar	690–691
Iranian calendar	1068–1069
Islamic calendar	1101–1102
Japanese calendar	Genroku 3 (元禄３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4023
Minguo calendar	222 before ROC 民前222年
Thai solar calendar	2232–2233

1690 (MDCXC) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Julian calendar, the 1690th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 690th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1690s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1690 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

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

July–December

• July 10 – 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.

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Battle of the Boyne

• July 11 – Battle of the Boyne, north of Dublin. King William III of England (William of Orange) defeats the deposed James II who returns to exile in France. The rebellion in Ireland continues for a further year until the Orange army gains full control.
• July 26 – French landing party raids and burns Teignmouth in Devon, England. However, with the loss of James II's position in Ireland, any plans for a real invasion are soon shelved and Teignmouth is the last-ever French attack on England.
• August 24 – In India, the fort and trading settlement of Sutanuti - which later becomes Calcutta - is founded on the Hooghly River by the English East India Company following signing of an Anglo-Moghul treaty.
• September 25 – The only issue of Publick Occurrences is published in Boston, Massachusetts, before being suppressed by the colonial authorities.
• October 6–12 October – Massachusetts Puritans led by Sir William Phips besiege the city of Quebec. The siege ends in failure.
• October 8 – Ottomans recapture Belgrade during Great Turkish War.
• November 17 – Barclays Is founded in London, England.
• December – Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri.
• December 29 – An earthquake hits Ancona in the Papal States of Italy.

Date unknown

• Arsenije III Carnojevic, Patriarch of Serbia, leads the first of the two Great Serbian Migrations into the Habsburg Empire, following Ottoman atrocities in Kosovo.
• The Hearth Tax is abolished in Scotland, one year after its abolition in England and Wales.
• French physicist Denis Papin, while in Leipzig and having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric pressure on his 'digester', builds a working model of a reciprocating steam engine for pumping water, the first of its kind, though not efficient.
• Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.
• Arcangelo Corelli publishes his Concerti Grossi.
• The Barrage Vauban, a defensive work in the city of Strasbourg (in present-day France) was completed
• Possible year of the disappearance of the western part of the island of 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)

Deaths

• January 3 – Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
• February 7 – Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet, English royalist statesman (b. c. 1628)
• February 22 – Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)
• April 18 – Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, Austrian-born general of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 1643)
• April 25 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610)
• May 9 – Theodore Haak, German-born scholar (b. 1605)
• May 21 – John Eliot, English Puritan missionary (b. 1604)
• May 27 – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
• July 1 – George Walker, Irish soldier and Anglican priest (b. 1645)
• July 21 – Gregorio Carafa, Calabrian-born 62nd Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1615)
• September 2 – Philip William, Elector Palatine, German-born ruler (b. 1615)
• October 3 – Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. c. 1648)
• November 17 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)