1690

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1660s 1670s 1680s – 1690s – 1700s 1710s 1720s
Years:	1687 1688 1689 – 1690 – 1691 1692 1693

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Year 1690 (MDCXC) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

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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 – William III lands in Ireland to confront James II.
June 8 – Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.

July 10 – Anglo-Dutch navy defeated by the French in the Battle of Beachy Head (also known as the Battle of Bévéziers), giving rise to fears of a Jacobite invasion of England.
July 12 – Battle of the Boyne, north of Dublin. James VII & II is defeated and sails back to France. The rebellion in Ireland continues for a further year until the Orange army gains control.
July 26 – French landing party raids and burns Teignmouth in Devon. However, with the loss of James VII & II's position in Ireland, any plans for a real invasion are soon shelved and Teignmouth is the last-ever French attack on England.
September 25 – The only issue of Publick Occurrences is published in Boston, Massachusetts, before being suppressed by the colonial authorities.
October 6–12 October – Massachusetts Puritans led by Sir William Phips besiege the city of Quebec. The siege ends in failure.
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.

Arsenije III Carnojevic, Patriarch of Serbia, leads the first of the two Great Serbian Migrations into the Habsburg Empire, following Ottoman atrocities in Kosovo.
Belgrade recaptured by Ottoman Turks from the Austrians.
Earliest type of piston steam engine patented by French physicist Denis Papin. It is used for pumping water but is not efficient.
Arcangelo Corelli publishes the Concerti Grossi.
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.
An Anglo-Moghul treaty allows the British East India Company to establish a fort and trading settlement on the Hooghly River, which becomes Calcutta.
Possible year of the disappearance of the island Buise in St. Peter's Flood.

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