The closing decade of the 17th century brought economic disaster as bad harvests of the seven ill years in the 1690s led to severe famine and depopulation.

This tight-knit political grouping was opposed by the " Country Whigs ", led by Robert Harley, who gradually merged with the Tory opposition in the later 1690s.

Religious and political differences between factions of directors at Harvard boiled into the open during the late 1690s.

Despite the fact that Scottish Presbyterians strongly supported the Williamites in the Williamite war in Ireland in the 1690s, they were excluded from power in the postwar settlement by the Anglican Protestant Ascendancy.

Bearers of the name were still noted as among the Gaelic nobility as late as the 1690s, though they had lost any real power long before.

The colonization project that became known as the Darien Scheme or Darien Disaster was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to become a world trading nation by establishing a colony called ' Caledonia ' on the Isthmus of Panama in the late 1690s.

Peter Gay places the zenith of deism " from the end of the 1690s, when the vehement response to John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious ( 1696 ) started the deist debate, to the end of the 1740s when the tepid response to Conyers Middleton's Free Inquiry signalled its close.

Between 1570 and 1800 Sweden experienced two periods of urban expansion, c. 1580-1690 and in the mid-18th century, separated by relative stagnation from the 1690s to about 1720.

Flora's Temple and the 1st Duke's Greenhouse survive from the 1690s, the Stable block and bridge were built by James Paine in the 1760s and Joseph Paxton's Conservative Wall and other glasshouses date from the 19th century.

Since the late 1690s, the last Aj Kan Ek ' started a more open attitude towards the Spaniards, which included receiving and protecting the emissaries from the Spaniards at Noj Peten ( also known as Noh Peten or Tayasal ).

The comedies of the golden 1670s and 1690s peak times are extremely different from each other.

The term ' Glencoe Village ' is a recent one ( appearing on a few road signs only in the last 20 years to differentiate it from Glen Coe itself ), however the setting near the Glen Coe valley is quite historic as it is near the site of the Massacre of Glencoe in the 1690s, in which MacDonalds and Hendersons were killed by the Campbells acting on the orders of King William II.

Isaac Newton took an interest in Simon's New Testament criticism in the early 1690s, pointed out to him by John Locke, adding from it to an Arian summary of his views that was intended for publication by Le Clerc, but remained in manuscript.

In the 1690s, Kneller painted the Hampton Court Beauties depicting the most glamorous ladies-in-waiting of the Royal Court for which he received his knighthood from William III.

Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1690s wrote a large amount of incidental music including music for William Congreve's Love for Love, John Dryden's The Spanish Friar and William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Arabs from the Middle East and Muslims from India were actively trading in the port by the 1690s.

Though Morrice reveals virtually nothing about himself in his diaries, his Entring Book is a particularly useful source document for London life and politics from the late 1670s to the early 1690s – as informative, in its own way, as the better known Diaries of Samuel Pepys.

Although the House survived as an official building — being used for the lying-in-state of Commonwealth Generals-at-Sea Richard Dean ( 1653 ) and Robert Blake ( 1657 )— the main palace was progressively demolished from the 1660s to 1690s and replaced by the Royal Hospital for Seamen, built 1696 – 1751 to the master-plan of Sir Christopher Wren.

Notwithstanding this agreement, by the 1690s the land had already been partitioned into different counties, despite appeals from the Welsh settlers, and the Tract never gained self-government.

Events from the 1690s in Canada.

* Margaret Rule, a young Boston girl in the 1690s who was believed to be harassed by evil forces shortly after the Salem Witchcraft Trials, reportedly levitated from her bed in the presence of a number of witnesses.

In this context, " Protestants " means essentially descendants of immigrants from Scotland and England settled in Ulster during or soon after the 1690s ; also known as " Loyalists " or " Unionist " because they generally support politically the status of Northern Ireland as a part of the United Kingdom.

This meant that Catholics, having been excluded from municipal government since the 1690s, became a 2-1 majority in the electorate.

In the Russian Empire, Imperial Russian Guard units (" Leib-Guards ", ), derived from German ' Leibwächter ' ( body-guards ), were intended to ensure the security of the sovereign, initially, that of Peter the Great in the 1690s.

The largest third rates, those of 80 guns, were likewise three-deckers from the 1690s until the early 1750s, but both before this period and subsequent to it, 80-gun ships were built as two-deckers.

His emblematic design from the 1690s was the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, commenced in 1695 in Vienna.

England experienced a new period of internal peace and relative stability, encouraging the arts including literature, from around the 1690s onwards.

In the 1690s, the Lords Proprietors were keen to implement their plan for a colonial aristocracy ( an attempt to stabilize Carolina politics ).

Another monastery cathedral, the main church of Epiphany Monastery ( 1690s ), stands in the middle of Kitay-gorod in the eponymous Bogoyavlensky Lane.

Newton had been urged to make a new edition of the ' Principia ' since the early 1690s, partly because copies of the first edition had already become very rare and expensive within a few years after 1687.

Unlike Love's Last Shift, never again performed after the 1690s, The Relapse has retained its audience appeal.

It was only after the 1690s that Scottish settlers and their descendants, the majority of whom were Presbyterian, gained numeric superiority in Ulster.

The works were built on the site of a cutlery grinding wheel, which had existed since the 1690s, on land cleared after the 1864 flood.

In the early 1690s Astell entered into correspondence with John Norris of Bemerton, after reading Norris's Practical Discourses, upon several Divine subjects.

By the 1690s he was in Vienna, and attracted the attention of Emperor Leopold I with some masses he composed ; the emperor was sufficiently impressed by them to assist him with his career after this point.

During the French occupation of the 1690s, Kehl became Roman Catholic again, only to revert to Lutheranism after being ceded back to the margrave of Baden.

The order that became the standard after Froberger's death, with the gigue being the last movement, first appeared in a 1690s print of Froberger's works by the Amsterdam publisher Mortier.

It was named after the great king of Vhavenda, King Thohoyandou, who ruled the Vhavenda kingdom from the 1690s to the early 1720s.

However, after yet another fire in the 1690s, the capital was relocated in 1699 to Middle Plantation, on higher ground about 12 miles ( 20 km ) east, soon renamed Williamsburg.

In 1690s, Ghaziuddin Khan, a general of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, a leading Deccan commander and the father of Asaf Jah I, the founder of the Asaf Jahi dynasty of Hyderabad, through religious endowment founded a madarsa, Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan after him.

Since periodicals were inexpensive to produce, quick to read, and a viable way of influencing public opinion, their numbers increased dramatically after the success of The Athenian Mercury ( flourished in the 1690s but published in book form in 1709 ).