1690
Years:
1687 1688 1689 - 1690 - 1691 1692 1693Decades:
1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720sCenturies:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1690 by topic: Science - State leaders - Literature - Music
Events
- January 6 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans
- January 14 - The Clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany
- May 20 - England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
- 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.
- December 29 - earthquake in Anconer in Papal States, Italy
- Earliest recorded sighting of the Planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the Star 34 Tauri
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes Differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.
- The French invade the small town of Teignmouth in Southwest England, in their last attack on England.
Births
- January 22 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
- 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)
Deaths
- January 3 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
- February 7 - William Morice, English royalist statesman
- February 22 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)
- April 18 - Charles IV, 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
- November 17 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)