* 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.

Founded August 24, 1690 by Job Charnock of the East India Company, and commonly called `` The City of Palaces '', it seemed a vast and elegant place to Ann Hasseltine Judson.

For the same theatre be composed La Lolta d ' Ercole con Achilleo in 1689, La Superbia d ' Alessandro in 1690, Orlando generoso in 1691, Le Rivali concordi in 1692, La Liberia contenta in 1693, I Trionfi del Job and I Baccanali in 1695, and Briseide in 1696.

There is a long chain of events behind the arrival of British in Bengal, specifically Job Charnock in Sutanuti in 1690.

With this friendly invitation, Mr. Job Charnock with 30 soldiers returned to Sutanuti on 24th August 1690 and hoisted the Royal Standards of England on the banks of river Hooghly, thus beginning a new era of British involvement in Bengal.

Initially the British were based in and around the city of Hooghly like traders from other countries but in 1690 Job Charnock decided to shift the British trading center from Hooghly-Chinsura to Calcutta.

Calcutta was founded by an Englishman, Job Charnock, who was then a key functionary of the Company, had anchored his boat Maddapollam at a village called Sutanuti on the eastern banks of the Hooghly, in 1690.

In March 1690 the Company received permission from Aurangzeb in Delhi to re-establish a factory in Bengal, and on 24 August 1690 Charnock returned to set up his headquarters in the place he called Calcutta ; the appointment of a new nawab ensured this agreement was honoured, and on 10 February 1691 an imperial grant was issued for the English to " contentedly continue their trade ".

Throughout the year 1690, French naval ships from Pondicherry ravaged the coast in order to drive the English and the Dutch out of the East Indies but were unsuccessful.

Sent on a mission by the Dutch East India Company, Engelbert Kaempfer ( 1651 – 1716 ), a German physician and botanist who lived in Japan from 1690 until 1692, ushered in this tradition of a combination of physician and botanist.

Evelyn Pierrepont, 5th Earl and 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull ( c. 1655 – 5 March 1726 ) had been member of parliament for East Retford before his accession to the peerage in 1690.

Captain John Strong of the Welfare made the first recorded landing on either of the main islands ( West and East Falkland ) on 29 January 1690 at Bold Cove on the other side of the headland from Port Howard.

In 1690, Spanish explorer Alonso de León, following various Indian and buffalo trails, crossed the Rio Grande on his way to East Texas to establish missions, effectively blazing the Old San Antonio Road.

Captain John Strong of the Welfare made the first recorded landing on either of the main islands ( West and East Falkland ) on 29 January 1690, at Bold Cove ( near Port Howard ) just off Falkland Sound.

In 1690, the British East India Company purchased the fort and the adjacent villages ( within " ye randome shott of a piece of ordnance ".

The species of Coffea arabica came to Americas around the year 1690, and it was first cultivated in the Dutch East Indies.

His family had migrated from Elbing in East Prussia to Norway, first with Tobias Fleischer ( 1630 – 1690 ) who found a position in Kongsberg.

The three villages, in particular Kalikata, where Calcutta is located, came into the possession of the British East India Company in 1690 and some scholars like to date its beginnings as a major city from the construction of Fort William by the British in 1698, though this is debated ( see the court ruling in " Name and origins " above ).

In 1690, Alonso De León escorted several Catholic missionaries to East Texas, where they established the first mission in Texas.

In March 1690, Alonso De León led an expedition to establish a mission in East Texas.

Sir John Child, 1st Baronet ( died 1690 ) was a governor of Bombay, and de facto ( although not officially ) the first governor-general of the British settlements in India.

Image: Bronzed Drongo I IMG 1690. jpg | Near Purbasthali in Burdwan District, West Bengal, India.

During the Dutch rule Pulicat was known by the name Pallaicatta Pulicat today bears testimony to this fact ( period 1606 to 1690 ) with the Dutch Fort in ruins, dating back to 1609, a Dutch Church, Dutch Cemetery with 22 protected tombs ( 1631 to 1655 ) and a Dutch Cemetery with 76 tombs and mausoleums protected by the Archaeological Survey of India ( ASI ).

The school was founded in 1690 by a Royal Charter granted to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers to establish a ' hospital ' for twenty boarders with £ 32, 000 from the legacy of Robert Aske (£ 4, 300, 000 in today's money ).

Following a bequest of £ 20, 000 made by the merchant Robert Aske to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers on his death in 1689, an almshouse for twenty poor members of the Haberdashers ' Company was established in 1690 at Hoxton, near the City of London.

He became Sheriff of the City of London in 1689, an Alderman from 1689 to 1712, and Master of the Grocer's Company from 1690 to 1691.

Robert Aske left the Company £ 20, 000 in 1690 to set up a hospital and home for 20 elderly men and a school for 20 boys at Hoxton, just north of the City of London.

Members of the family include Thomas Lee ( 1690 – 1750 ), a founder of the Ohio Company and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses ; Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734 – 1797 ) and Richard Henry Lee ( 1732 – 1794 ), signers of the United States Declaration of Independence ; Thomas Sim Lee ( 1745 – 1819 ), Governor of Maryland and, most famous, General Robert E. Lee ( 1807 – 1870 ) Confederate States of America commander in the United States Civil War.

Thomas Lee ( 1690 – 1750 ), Virginia colonist and cofounder of the Ohio Company.