* 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 – Battle of the Boyne ( Julian calendar ) – The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.

* 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.

* 1690 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier ( b. 1610 )

* 1610 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier ( d. 1690 )

* October 6 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier ( d. 1690 )

** Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist ( d. 1690 )

* April 3 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire ( d. 1690 )

* September 15 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer ( b. 1690 )

The fairy tale itself became popular among the précieuses of upper-class France ( 1690 – 1710 ), and among the tales told in that time were the ones of La Fontaine and the Contes of Charles Perrault ( 1697 ), who fixed the forms of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

* Charles Clinton ( 1690 – 1773 ), French and Indian War colonel, father of James and George Clinton

Charles Edward Montagu, the 4th Earl who was created 1st Duke of Manchester in 1719, had many works of reconstruction carried out between 1690 and 1720.

The first architect of the gardens at Chiswick appears to have been the King's gardener, Charles Bridgeman ( 1690 – 1738 ), who was believed to have worked on the gardens with Lord Burlington around 1720, and subsequently with William Kent, whom Lord Burlington had brought back with him on his return from his second Grand Tour in 1719.

* Lord Charles Churchill ( 19 Aug 1690 – 22 May 1692 )

Another daughter, Anne, arrived in 1684, followed by John in 1686, Elizabeth in 1687, Mary in 1689, and Charles in 1690 who lived for only two years.

Charles Le Brun ( 24 February 1619 – 22 February 1690 ) was a French painter and art theorist.

Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier ( 6 October 1610 – 17 November 1690 ) was a French soldier and the governor of the dauphin, Louis le Grand Dauphin, the eldest son and heir of Louis XIV, King of France.

* Charles Talbot, 12th Earl of Shrewsbury: 14 February 1689-2 June 1690

** Col. Charles Clinton 1690 – 1773 father of James and George commander of NY Militia French & Indian War ( assault on Fort Frontenac ).

He was married three times, and left daughter Anne ( d. 1743 ) and two sons: William ( 1690 – 1760 ), who succeeded to his father's titles and estates, and Henry Charles ( c. 1700-1762 ), who enjoyed the same dignities for a short time after his brother's death.

One of his great-grandfathers, Pierre de Lesseps ( Bayonne, 2 January 1690 – Bayonne, 20 August 1759 ), son of Bertrand Lesseps ( 1649 – 1708 ) and wife ( m. 18 April 1675 ) Louise Fisson ( 1654 – 1690 ), was town clerk and at the same time secretary to Queen Anne of Neuberg, widow of Charles II of Spain, exiled to Bayonne after the accession of Philip V, and married on 7 January 1715 his great-grandmother Catherine Fourcade ( 2 June 1690 – 22 August 1760 ), by whom he had fourteen children, six of whom died in childhood: Dominique de Lesseps ( 1715 – 1794 ), Pierre de Lesseps ( 1716 –?

* Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton ( 1663 – 1690 ), second illegitimate son of Charles II and the Duchess of Cleveland

Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton KG ( 28 September 1663 – 9 October 1690 ) was the illegitimate son of King Charles II by Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine.

* September – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist, harpsichordist and composer ( born 1690 )

Charles Theodore Pachelbel ( baptised Carl Theodorus, also Karl Theodor ) ( baptized November 24, 1690 buried September 15, 1750 ) was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist of the late Baroque era.