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What Happened In Year 1690?

• January 6, 1690 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
• February 3, 1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
• June 8, 1690 – Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
• July 1, 1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
• July 12, 1690 – Battle of the Boyne (Julian calendar) – The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.
• August 24, 1690 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday).
• September 25, 1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

Who Were Born In The Year 1690?

• January 22, 1690 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
• February 1, 1690 – Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768)
• February 3, 1690 – Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
• March 18, 1690 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (d. 1764)
• April 22, 1690 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)
• September 12, 1690 – Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
• October 29, 1690 – Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
• November 24, 1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
• November 29, 1690 – Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
• December 1, 1690 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)
• December 22, 1690 – Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)

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