6th January » Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor e.g Joseph, son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor or Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
3rd February » The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
15th February » Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
8th June » Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
1st July » Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
12th July » Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) The armies of William III of England e.g William III defeat those of the former James II of England named James II.
24th August » Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Kolkata named Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday).
25th September » 'Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick', the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
Famous Birthdays in 1690
22nd January » Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1st February » Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1768)
3rd February » Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
18th March » Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (d. 1764)
22nd April » John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1763)
11th June » Giovanni Antonio Giay, Italian composer (d. 1764)
12th September » Peter Dens, Flemish theologian and academic (d. 1775)
15th September » Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and educator (d. 1748)
28th October » Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian admiral (d. 1720)
29th October » Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1754)
22nd November » François Colin de Blamont, French pianist and composer (d. 1760)
24th November » Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (d. 1750)
29th November » Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (d. 1747)
1st December » Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor named Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1764)