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# 1690

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## [edit] 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)

## [edit] Deaths

## [edit] 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.

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