1690

Events of 1690

January 6 - Joseph, son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of the Romans.
January 7 - The first recorded full peal is 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 the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II.
June 8 - Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
June 26 - The French invade the small town of Teignmouth in South West England, in their last attack on England.

July 1 - Battle of the Boyne: Williamite forces defeat the Jacobite army in Ireland.
September 25 - The first and only issue of Publick Occurrences is published in Boston, Massachusetts, before being suppressed by the colonial authorities.
October 6-12 - Massachusetts Puritans led by Sir William Phips besiege the city of Quebec. The siege ends in failure.
Arsenije III Carnojevic, Patriarch of Serbia, leads the first of the 2 Great Serbian Migrations into the 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 - An earthquake hits Anconer in the Papal States, Italy.

Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.
The Hearth Tax is abolished in Scotland, one year after its abolition in England and Wales.
The British East India Company founds a fort that became Calcutta.
Possible year of the disappearance of the island Buise in the Petri Flood.