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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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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 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.

1690 - Births

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)

1690 - Deaths

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)