What is 1690?
{{Year nav|1690}} {{Year in various calendars|1690}} {{Year article header|1690}} ==Events== * [[January 6]] – [[Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor|Joseph]], son of [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|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 of England|James II]] * [[July 1]] – The [[Battle of the Boyne]], in [[Ireland]] * [[October 6]]-[[October 12|12]] – [[Massachusetts]] [[Puritan]]s 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 (planet)|Uranus]], by [[John Flamsteed]], who mistakenly catalogues it as the [[star]] 34 [[Taurus (constellation)|Tauri]] * [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] observes [[differential rotation]] within [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]'s atmosphere. * The French invade the small town of [[Teignmouth]] in Southwest England, in their last attack on England. == 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|Lord Chancellor of England]] (d. [[1764]]) [[Category:1690| ]]