Today in History for Year 1690

Months in Year 1690: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 27 of 27

Jan 6th - Joseph I, later Holy Roman Emperor and son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
Jan 14th - Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany
Jan 22nd - Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
Feb 3rd - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
Feb 8th - French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire
Feb 8th - Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
Mar 16th - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
May 11th - English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal Nova Scotia
May 20th - England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
Jun 8th - Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
Jun 11th - English king Willem III departs to Ireland
Jun 24th - King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14]
Jun 30th - Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Neth/English fleet
Jul 1st - Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army
Jul 1st - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland
Jul 10th - Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet under Cornelis Evertsen
Jul 11th - Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Neth-Engl) beat Jacobus II (Ire)
Jul 12th - Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II
Aug 1st - Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye
The Sun King Louis XIV Aug 24th - Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
Sep 6th - King Willem III escapes back to England
Sep 25th - Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st & last ed
Oct 7th - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
Oct 8th - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
Oct 23rd - Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking
Dec 10th - Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
Dec 23rd - John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 25 of 25

Jan 13th - Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer
Jan 22nd - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
Feb 1st - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer
Feb 3rd - Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
Feb 21st - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer
Feb 28th - Aleksei P Romanov, Russia, son of Peter the Great
Mar 1st - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
Mar 18th - Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position)
Apr 22nd - John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)
Apr 25th - Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer
Jul 7th - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
Aug 9th - Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, composer
Sep 12th - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
Sep 15th - Ignazio Prota, composer
Oct 8th - Jaime de Casellas, composer
Oct 19th - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer
Oct 29th - Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
Nov 11th - Gerhard Hoffmann, composer
Nov 17th - Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist
Nov 22nd - Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
Nov 23rd - Ernst J earl van Biron, Russian duke of Koerland/regent of Ivan VI
Nov 24th - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer
Nov 29th - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
Dec 1st - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)
Dec 22nd - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 18 of 18

Jan 3rd - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
Feb 7th - William Morice, English royalist statesman
Feb 22nd - Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70
Mar 18th - Charles, duke of Lutherans, dies
Apr 12th - Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer, dies at 71
Apr 18th - Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal, dies
Apr 25th - David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79
May 21st - John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
May 27th - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer, dies at 63
Jul 10th - Domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39
Jul 10th - Jan van Brakel, Dutch vice admiral (Chatham), dies in battle at 48
Jul 11th - Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75
Jul 23rd - Richard Gibson, minature painter, dies
Sep 2nd - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
Oct 3rd - Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
Oct 16th - Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43
Oct 30th - Hieronymus van Beverningk, Duitch general, dies at 76
Nov 17th - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)