1690 - 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 ...

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October 6 - 1289 to 1899. 1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306) 1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507) 1510 - Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555) 1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610) 1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624) 1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690) 1716 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Hali ...

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March 6 - 1252 to 1899. 1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235) 1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458) 1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador 1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580) 1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1694) 1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician 1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690) 1796 - Guillaume ...

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Shortly after his return, Jolly was married to Claire-Francoise Bissot. In 1680 he was granted the Island of Anticosti, where he erected a fort, which was subsequently captured by the English in 1690, upon which occasion his wife was taken prisoner. The restless spirit of the explorer persevered in Jolly to the end, for mention is made, within a few years of his death, of extensive wanderings in Labrador. In 1693 he was appointed royal hydrographer, and, on April 30, 1697, he was granted the seigniory of Jolly, south of Quebec. Louis Jolly d ...

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Shortly after his return, Joliet was married to Claire-Francoise Bissot. In 1680 he was granted the Island of Anticosti, where he erected a fort, which was subsequently captured by the English in 1690, upon which occasion his wife was taken prisoner. The restless spirit of the explorer persevered in Joliet to the end, for mention is made, within a few years of his death, of extensive wanderings in Labrador. In 1693 he was appointed royal hydrographer, and, on April 30, 1697, he was granted the seigniory of Joliet, south of Quebec. Louis Joli ...

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The war began with the French invasion of the Palatinate in 1688, ostensibly to support the claims of Louis XIV's sister-in-law, the Duchess of Orleans, to the territory following the death of her nephew in 1685 and the territory's inheritance by the junior Neuburg branch of the family. The harshness of Louis's activities united all of Germany behind the Emperor, who was, however, still busy fighting a war in Hungary against the Ottoman Empire. In pursuit of his new aggressive policy in Germany, Louis sent his troops into that country ...

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The war continued, however, as did the French successes on land. 1693 saw another victory by Luxembourg over William at Landen, and the capture of Charleroi by the French. The French also continued their successes in Piedmont with a decisive victory at Marsaglia, while in 1694 the French advanced into Catalonia and besieged Barcelona until forced to withdraw by an English fleet. The French cause was significantly handicapped by the death of Luxembourg in 1695. In the campaign that followed that summer, William was successful, capturin ...

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The war ultimately came to an inconclusive conclusion with the Treaty of Ryswick, which restored the status quo ante. Louis also agreed to surrender fortifications at Mons, Luxembourg, and Kortrijk to the Spanish, although this was widely seen as a decision taken to improve his chances of a Bourbon inheritance of the Spanish throne following the death of the childless Carlos II. The pe ...

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Marlborough and his wife had five children: Harriet, (October 1679 - bef. 1698) Henrietta, (July 19, 1681 - October 24, 1733) Anne, (February 27, 1683 - April 15, 1716) John, Marquess of Blandford, (February 13, 1686 - February 20, 1703) Elizabeth, (March 15, 1687 - March 22, 1714) Mary (July 15, 1689 - May 14, 1751) Charles (August 19, 1690 - May 22, 1692) When Churchill's sons predeceased him, the title was allowed by a special Act of Parliament to pass to his ...

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Born in Boston to David Yale (1613-1690) and Ursula Knight (1624-1698). His grandmother, Ann Lloyd (1591-1659), was also the wife of the Governor Theophilus Eaton (1590-1657) of New Haven Colony by a second marriage after her first husband, Thomas Yale (1590-1619), suddenly died at Chester. Yale moved to England with his family when he was four, and never returned to North America. For 20 years, Yale was part of the British East India Company, and he became the second governor of a settlement at Madras (present-day city of Chennai) in 1687, after Streynsham Master. He was suspended from the post, however, in 1692 after arguments ...

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