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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).

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Events of 1690

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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)
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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)
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