* 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 ).

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* 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.

Publick Occurrences, 1690

He published the New England Primer, the first textbook in British America, and edited the first multi-page newspaper there, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, from 25 September 1690.

He began a monthly historical review in 1688, entitled Modern History or a Monthly Account of all considerable Occurrences, Civil, Ecclesiastical and Military, followed in 1690, by The Present State of Europe, or a Historical and Political Mercury, which was supplemented by a preliminary volume giving a history of events from 1688.

The first edition was published September 25, 1690, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was intended to be published monthly, " or, if any Glut of Occurrences happen, oftener.

Both died without issue, and the title became extinct when James was outlawed in 1690.

" The mistaken use for " sense of guilt " is first recorded 1690.

A patent application for IDEA was first filed in Switzerland ( CH A 1690 / 90 ) on May 18, 1990, then an international patent application was filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty on May 16, 1991.

The first was begun by Danish astronomer Hans Emil Lau who, after studying the data on the orbit of Uranus from 1690 to 1895, concluded that one trans-Neptunian planet alone could not account for the discrepancies in its orbit, and postulated the position of two planets he believed were responsible.

Saskatchewan was first explored by Europeans in 1690 and settled in 1774, having also been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups.

Huygens is remembered especially for his wave theory of light, which he first communicated in 1678 to France's Royal Académie des sciences and which he published in 1690 in his Treatise on light ( see also Huygens-Fresnel principle ).

The first of these was in December 1690, which remains the earliest known sighting of Uranus by an astronomer.

In 1690, Jacob Bernoulli became the first person to develop the technique for solving separable differential equations.

From 1690 to 1692 he was first Lord of the Admiralty ; then he served as Lord Privy Seal until 1699, being in 1697 the first plenipotentiary of Great Britain at the congress of Ryswick.

Newcomen's engine worked purely by atmospheric pressure, thereby avoiding the dangers of high-pressure steam, and used the piston concept invented in 1690 by the Frenchman Denis Papin to produce the first steam engine capable of raising water from deep mines.

The first piston steam engine, 1690

While in Marburg in 1690, having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric pressure on his ' digester ', Papin built a model of a piston steam engine, the first of its kind.

* Joseph Hawley ( born 1603 in England ; died 1690 ), who had emigrated to America in 1629 and then settled in Stratford in 1650, later becoming Stratford's first town clerk.

* John Skene ( d. 1690 ), Deputy Governor of West Jersey who was the first Freemason in North America.

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.

The Friends Meeting, whose first meetings were held at the home of William Biles on Biles Island, found a site for a brick meeting house, built about 1690 in Fallsington on of land that had been donated by Samuel Burges.

Chippendale was the only child of John Chippendale ( 1690 – 1768 ), joiner, and his first wife Mary ( née Drake )

It is believed that Henry Kelsey was the first European to see the lake, in 1690.

Jakob Bernoulli solved the problem using calculus in a paper ( Acta Eruditorum, 1690 ) that saw the first published use of the term integral.

The first element Kongs-(" the King's ") was added after the fortress was built in 1690.

The Chapel was built between 1650 and 1690 and was the first to be dedicated to the Our Lady of the Rosary.