* 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 ).

* Charles V, Duke of Lorraine ( 1643 – 1690 )

Christian Goldbach ( March 18, 1690 – November 20, 1764 ) was a German mathematician who also studied law.

* 1690 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England ( d. 1764 )

* 1690 – Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur ( d. 1751 )

Initially fighting on the Rhine with Max Emmanuel – receiving a slight head wound at the Siege of Mainz in 1689 – Eugene subsequently transferred himself to Piedmont after Victor Amadeus joined the Alliance against France in 1690.

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

* 1619 – Charles Le Brun, French artist ( d. 1690 )

* 1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.

* Grand Princes of Transylvania ( 1690 – 1867 ).

Image: Peonies by Yun Shouping. jpg | Peonies, by Yun Shouping ( 1633 – 1690 ), Chinese

* 1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne ( as reckoned under the Julian calendar ).

* 1730 – Olivier Levasseur, French pirate ( b. 1690 )

* 1690 – Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.

* 1690 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter ( d. 1743 )

* 1690 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.

Johann Tobias Krebs ( 7 July 1690 – 11 February 1762 ) was a German organist and composer.

England's crushing defeat by France, the dominant naval power, in naval engagements culminating in the 1690 Battle of Beachy Head, became the catalyst for England's rebuilding itself as a global power.

After this, James attempted to retake the throne by force in the Williamite War, and was finally defeated by William at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

William's victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 is still commemorated by the Orange Order.

During King William's War ( 1689 to 1697 ) military conflicts in Acadia included: Battle of Port Royal ( 1690 ); a naval battle in the Bay of Fundy ( Action of July 14, 1696 ); and the Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 ).

The Battle of the Boyne, 1690, occurred some west of the town, on the banks of the River Boyne, at Oldbridge.

Maximilian Emanuel was again forced to flee the Netherlands after the Battle of Ramillies ( May 23, 1706 ) and found refuge at the French court in Versailles where his late sister Maria Anna ( 1660 – 1690 ) had been the wife of le Grand Dauphin.

The Battle of the Boyne (, ) was fought in 1690 between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish, and Irish thronesthe Catholic King James and the Protestant King William ( who had deposed James in 1688 ) across the River Boyne near Drogheda on the east coast of Ireland.

Battle of the Boyne between James II and William III, 11 July 1690, Jan van Huchtenburg.

* Padraig Lenihan, 1690 Battle of the Boyne, Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire 2003.

In the Williamite war in Ireland ( 1689 – 91 ), the Jacobites also retreated behind the Shannon after their defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

But in 1736, the Massachusetts General Court granted a large section of the land to veterans of the 1690 Battle of Quebec.

It was granted by the Massachusetts General Court on June 15, 1771 to James Otis, Nathaniel Gorham and other descendants of Captain John Gorham and certain members of his company who had fought in the 1690 Battle of Quebec.

The land that became Warwick was one of four tracts of land established by Massachusetts in 1735 to compensate the descendants of the officers and soldiers who served during the " expedition to Canada " and the Battle of Quebec in 1690.

William III's victory at the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690 ( O. S.

In Northern Ireland, bonfires are lit on Halloween, October 31. and each 11 July, bonfires are lit by many Protestant communities to celebrate the victory of Williamite forces at the Battle of the Boyne, which took place on 12 July 1690.

( He was called William after William of Orange, who won the Battle of the Boyne on July 12, 1690.

Madockawando and others from Penobscot fought along side Hertel Portneuf and St. Castin at the Battle of Fort Loyal ( May 1690 ).

The Battle of Fleurus, fought on 1 July 1690, was a major engagement of the Nine Years ' War.

The Scottish Jacobites were heavily defeated at the Haughs of Cromdale on 1 May 1690, and James was defeated on 1 July 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.

* The Battle of Fleurus ( 1690 ) in the Nine Years ' War.

The Battle of Beachy Head in 1690 was a naval engagement during the Nine Years ' War.

Nevertheless he subsequently joined the forces of William of Orange, by whom he was made colonel of the Queen's Troop of Horse Guards on 20 April 1689, and commanded the Queen's Troop at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland.

In 1752, the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Ireland, which erroneously placed the Boyne on 12 July instead of Aughrim ( the correct equivalent date was 11 July, as the difference between the calendars for the year in question, 1690, was not 11 days but only 10 days ).

* Boyne, 1690

Forty years later, during the pan-European War of the Grand Alliance, the city was again of key strategic importance, being one of the Jacobite strongholds defending the river-crossings into the confederate-held Province of Connacht following their being routed at the battle of the Boyne 1 July 1690.

James attended Mass services there with his Jacobite supporters for a time, however, the victory of the Protestant Williamites in this war meant that the cathedral was restored to Anglican ownership in 1690 when James abandoned Dublin after his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne.

The Battle of the Boyne, a major battle in Irish history, took place along the Boyne near Drogheda in 1690 during the Williamite war in Ireland.

His hopes of using Ireland to reconquer England were thwarted at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690.

It provided a refuge in 1690 for James II and his army fleeing the Battle of the Boyne.