1690
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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s |
| Years: | 1687 1688 1689 - 1690 - 1691 1692 1693 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1690 MDCXC |
| Ab urbe condita | 2443 |
| Armenian calendar | 1139 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԹ |
| Chinese calendar | 4326/4386-11-21 (己巳年十一月廿一日) — to —
4327/4387-12-2(庚午年十二月初二日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1682 – 1683 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5450 – 5451 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1745 – 1746 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1612 – 1613 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4791 – 4792 |
| Iranian calendar | 1068 – 1069 |
| Islamic calendar | 1101 – 1102 |
| Japanese calendar | Genroku 3 (元禄3年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2350 (皇紀2350年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11690 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2233 |
1690 (MDCXC) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events
- 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.
- Patriarch of Serbia, Arsenije III Carnojevic, leads the 1st of the 2 Great Serbian Migrations into Habsburg Empire, following Ottoman atrocities in Kosovo
- 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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 IV, 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)
