1690

1690 (MDCXC) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1690th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 690th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1690s decade. As of the start of 1690, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1690 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1690 MDCXC
Ab urbe condita	2443
Armenian calendar	1139 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	6440
Balinese saka calendar	1611–1612
Bengali calendar	1097
Berber calendar	2640
English Regnal year	2 Will. & Mar. – 3 Will. & Mar.
Buddhist calendar	2234
Burmese calendar	1052
Byzantine calendar	7198–7199
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4386 or 4326     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4387 or 4327
Coptic calendar	1406–1407
Discordian calendar	2856
Ethiopian calendar	1682–1683
Hebrew calendar	5450–5451
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1746–1747
- Shaka Samvat	1611–1612
- Kali Yuga	4790–4791
Holocene calendar	11690
Igbo calendar	690–691
Iranian calendar	1068–1069
Islamic calendar	1101–1102
Japanese calendar	Genroku 3 (元禄３年)
Javanese calendar	1613–1614
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4023
Minguo calendar	222 before ROC 民前222年
Nanakshahi calendar	222
Thai solar calendar	2232–2233
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 1816 or 1435 or 663     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Horse) 1817 or 1436 or 664

Events

• January 6 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I 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
• July 1 – The Battle of the Boyne, in Ireland
• October 6-12 – Massachusetts Puritans led by Sir William Phips besiege the city of Quebec. The siege ends in failure.
• December 29 – earthquake in Anconer in Papal States, Italy

• Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri
• Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.
• The French invade the small town of Teignmouth in Southwest England, in their last attack on England.

Births

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