1690

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1687 1688 1689 - 1690 - 1691 1692 1693 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

|} ==Events== * Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter (planet)'s atmosphere. *January 6 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 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 *July 1 - The Battle of the Boyne, in Ireland * Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus (planet), by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogued it as the star 34 Taurus (constellation) * October 6-12--Massachusetts Puritans led by Sir William Phips besiege the city of Quebec. The siege ends in failure. * The French invade the small town of Teignmouth in Southwest England, in their last attack on England. ==Births== *February 1 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768) *March 18 - Christian Goldbach Prussian mathematician (d. 1764) *November 29 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747) ==Deaths== *July 1 - George Walker (1645-1690), Irish national hero (b. 1645) 1690 bs:1690 os:1690

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