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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).

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.

The British East India Company founds a fort that became Calcutta.

Possibly the year of the disappearance of the island Buise in the Petri Flood.

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) � See also .

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) � See also .

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