1690

Portal history | Portal Biographies | Current events | Annual calendar

◄ | 16th century | 17th century | 18th century | ►
◄ | 1660s | 1670s | 1680s | 1690s | 1700s | 1710s | 1720s | ►
◄◄ | ◄ | 1686 | 1687 | 1688 | 1689 | 1690 | 1691 | 1692 | 1693 | 1694 | ► | ►►

Heads of State · Nekrolog · Music Year

 Map with all linked sites: OSM | WikiMap

1690
In the Battle of the Boyne , William of Orange defeats the army of James II and ends the Jacobite revolt .
Johann Wilhelm becomes Elector of the Electoral Palatinate .	Denis Papin develops a steam engine .
1690 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1138/39 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1682/83 (turn of the year 10/11 September)
Bengali solar calendar	1095/96 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar	2233/34 (southern Buddhism); 2232/33 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	73rd (74th) cycle Year of the Metal Horse庚午 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Snake 己巳)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1052/53 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4023/24 (2-3 October)
Iranian calendar	1068/69
Islamic calendar	1101/02 (New Year 4th / 5th October)
Jewish calendar	5450/51 (September 3-4)
Coptic calendar	1406/07 (September 10/11)
Malayalam calendar	865/866
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2000/01 (turn of the year April) Syria: 2001/02 (New Year October)
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1746/47 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

War of the Palatinate Succession / King William's War

The Battle of Fleurus,
painting by Pierre-Denis Martin

• July 1 : In the Palatinate War of Succession , a French army under François-Henri de Montmorency-Luxembourg defeats the allied Dutch and Germans in the Battle of Fleurus .
• July 10th : In the sea ​​battle of Beachy Head , a numerically stronger French fleet defeats a force of Anglo-Dutch squadrons .

Battle of Staffarda

• August 18th : French troops win the battle of Staffarda against an army from Savoy . The duchy is subsequently occupied.
• September 12 : After the death of Philipp Wilhelm , his eldest son Johann Wilhelm becomes the new Elector of the Palatinate .

Québec 1690

• 16th bis 24. October : The Battle of Quebec City during King William's War in the North American colonies of New England and New France ends with a French victory.

British Islands

• July 11 : In Ireland , during the Jacobite uprising, William of Orange's Protestant army defeats James II's Catholic army at the Battle of the Boyne .
• August 7th to September: The first siege of the Jacobite- held city of Limerick has to be broken off unsuccessfully by the army of William of Orange.

Asia

• August 24th : Job Charnock opens a branch of the British East India Company on the banks of the Hugli River . The city of Calcutta emerged from the settlement .

• Bahadur Khan II founds the state of Bahawalpur .

North American colonies

• A law comes into effect in South Carolina that details the punishment of slaves. The law allows slave owners, etc. a. to whip and mutilate insubordinate slaves, and under certain conditions to kill them.

economy

• January 16 : German monetary history before 1871 / Saxon coin history : Electoral Saxony and the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg contractually adopt the Leipzig base established by Kurbrandenburg in 1687 as the base for silver coins .
• February 3 : The first paper money in America comes into circulation in the British colony of Massachusetts .
• September 25th : The press flourished very briefly in the British colonies in America. The newspaper Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick appears for the first time and for the last time because it is immediately banned by the British authorities in New England .
• December 10 : With the issue of letters of credit ("bills of credit") by the colony of Massachusetts , the first currency is created on the American continent.

• First documentary mention of the Ellingen Castle Brewery .

science and technology

Papin's printing cylinder

• The French mathematician Denis Papin , professor at the University of Marburg , reports on a steam engine he built . It's essentially a cylinder with a little water and a piston inside. When the cylinder is alternately heated and cooled from the outside, the piston moves and provides useful mechanical work . It was the first working heat engine .

Culture

• January 14th : Johann Christoph Denner develops the clarinet in Nuremberg .
• October 5th : The Accademia dell'Arcadia is founded in Rome by a group of poets .

Born

First half of the year

• January 10 : Georg Friedrich von Amstel , Prussian major general and commander († 1757 )
• January 22nd : Nicolas Lancret , French painter († 1743 )
• January 23 : Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel , German composer and music theorist († 1749 )
• January 28 : Friedrich Bernhard Werner , draftsman († 1776 )
• January: Barbara Christine von Bernhold , imperial countess, mistress and confidante of Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel and confidante, adviser and grand stewardess of his son and successor Wilhelm VIII († 1756 )

• 0February 1 : Francesco Maria Veracini , Italian violinist and composer († 1768 )
• 0February 3 : Tilmann Joseph Godesberg , German priest and official in the Archdiocese of Cologne († 1754 )
• February 21 : Christoph Stoltzenberg , German composer († 1764 )
• February 28 : Alexei of Russia , Tsarevich (Crown Prince) of Russia († 1718 )

• March 18 : Christian Goldbach , Prussian mathematician († 1764 )
• March 20 : Giuseppe Gonzaga , Duke of Guastalla († 1746 )

• 0April 9 : Johan Henrik Scheffel , Swedish portrait and miniature painter († 1781 )
• April 13 : Joachim Wagner , German organ builder († 1749 )
• April 25 : Gottlieb Muffat , Austrian organist and composer († 1770 )
• May 30th : Anton Sturm , German baroque and rococo sculptor († 1757 )

Second half of the year

• August 29 : Agostino Masucci , Italian painter († 1768 )
• October 14 : Leopold Philipp Karl Joseph von Arenberg , Duke of Arenberg († 1754 )
• October 14 : Olivio Sozzi , Sicilian painter († 1765 )
• October 29 : Martin Folkes , English mathematician and numismatist († 1754 )
• 0November 5 : Peter Adolf Boysen , German Protestant theologian, philosopher and historian († 1743 )
• 0November 5 : Friedrich Ludwig von Württemberg-Winnental , electoral Saxon cavalry general and imperial general field master († 1734 )
• November 10 : Christine Charlotte zu Solms-Braunfels , Princess of Hesse-Homburg († 1751 )
• November 17 : Noël-Nicolas Coypel , French painter († 1734 )
• November 23 : Ernst Johann von Biron , Duke of Courland († 1772 )
• November 24th (baptized): Carl Theodorus Pachelbel , American organist and composer († 1750 )
• November 28 : Carlo Lodoli , Italian architectural theorist , priest, mathematician and teacher († 1761 )
• November 30th : Andreas Charitius , German Lutheran theologian († 1741 )
• December 22 : Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon-Condé , Abbess of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs († 1760 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Francesco Barsanti , Italian composer, oboist and flutist († 1770 )
• Charles Bridgeman , British horticultural architect († 1738 )

Born around 1690

• Anne Bonny , Irish rebel and pirate

Died

→ Main article : Nekrolog 1690

First half of the year

• January 26th : Abraham Delosea , Swiss Protestant clergyman and local researcher (* 1619 )

• February 12 : Charles Le Brun , French painter and ornamental artist (* 1619 )

• March 28 : Emmanuel Tzanes , Cretan painter (* 1610 )

• April 15 : Michael I. Apafi , Prince of Transylvania (* 1632 )
• April 16 : Gesina ter Borch , Dutch painter and draftsman (* 1633 )
• April 17th : Caspar Ziegler , German lawyer, poet and composer (* 1621 )
• April 18 : Charles V , titular duke of Lorraine (* 1643 )
• April 20 : Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria , Bavarian princess and wife of the heir to the French throne (* 1660 )
• April 25 : David Teniers the Younger , Flemish painter, draftsman and curator (* 1610 )

• 0May 6th : Philipp Matthäus , Dutch medic (* 1641 )
• May 15 : Eberhard Werner Happel , German polymath, translator, novelist and journalist (* 1647 )
• May 27 : Giovanni Lenzei , Italian composer (* 1626 )

Second half of the year

• 0July 8 : Neil O'Neill , Irish Catholic nobleman and chieftain (* 1658 )

• 0August 3 : Gottfried Meisner , German Protestant theologian (* 1618 )
• August 29 : Christoph Hartmann Schacher , German lawyer (* 1633 )

• 0September 5 : Gottfried Welsch , German medic (* 1618 )
• September 12 : Philipp Wilhelm , Elector Palatinate (* 1615 )
• September 15 : Thomas Bartholin the Elder J. , Royal Archivist in Copenhagen. (* 1659 )

• 0October 7th : Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton , English nobleman (* 1663 )
• 0October 7th : Jacques Savary , French merchant and co-founder of commercial science (* 1622 )
• October 15 : Adam Frans van der Meulen , Flemish painter (* 1632 )
• October 15 : Juan de Valdés Leal , Spanish painter and sculptor (* 1622 )
• October 17th : Margareta Maria Alacoque , French nun, mystic and saint of the Catholic Church (* 1647 )
• October 30 : Hieronymus van Beverningh , Dutch statesman and diplomat (* 1614 )

• 0November 3 : Jean-Baptiste Colbert , French statesman (* 1651 )
• 0November 4th : Johann Wilhelm , Duke of Saxony-Jena (* 1675 )

• December 19 : Gustav Düben , Swedish court conductor, organist and composer (* around 1628)
• December 26th : Joachim Ernst von Grumbkow , Elector Brandenburg General and Minister of War (* 1637 )

Web links

Commons : 1690  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files