1690
*
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.
*
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.
*
Hearth Tax abolished in
Scotland, one year after abolition in
England and
Wales.
*
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)
*
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)
