Page 2: Historical Events In 1690

Jul 01   Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army   

Jul 07   Johann Tobias Krebs, composer.   

Jul 10   Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet   

Jul 10   Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet   

Jul 10   Domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39.   

Jul 11   Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Neth-Engl) beat Jacobus II (Ire).   

Jul 11   Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75.   

Jul 12   Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II.   

Jul 12   Orangeman's yearly celebration (The battle of the Orange) - Actually "Battle of the Boyne" ( 1 July 1690), when Protestant had victory in Ireland   

Jul 23   Richard Gibson, minature painter, dies   

Aug 01   Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye   

Aug 09   Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, composer.   

Aug 24   Calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company.   

Aug 24   Job Charnock establishes an English trading post in West Bengal, considered the official founding of India's largest city, Calcutta.   

Aug 24   Job Charnock founds Calcutta India.   

Sep 01   Yellow fever in Thirteen Colonies.   

Sep 06   King Willem III escapes back to England   

Sep 15   Ignazio Prota, composer   

Sep 25   Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st and last ed.   

Sep 25   Publick Occurrences, inaugural US (Boston) newspaper, publish inaugural and last ed   

Oct 07   English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade.   

Oct 08   Jaime de Casellas, composer   

Oct 08   Turkish troops occupy Belgrade.   

Oct 16   Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43.   

Oct 19   Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer   

Oct 23   Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking   

Oct 30   Hieronymus van Beverningk, Duitch general, dies at 76.   

Nov 11   Gerhard Hoffmann, composer   

Nov 17   Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist   

Nov 22   Francois Collin de Blamont, composer   

Nov 23   Ernst J earl van Biron, Russian duke of Koerland/regent of Ivan VI.   

Nov 24   Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer.   

Dec 10   Mass Bay is recorded as becoming 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money   

Dec 10   Mass Bay is recorded as becoming inaugural American colonial government to borrow money.   

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Jan 13   Gottfried heinrich stolzel: Composer   

Jan 22   Nicolas lancret: French painter   

Feb 01   Francesco maria veracini: Italian opera composer   

Feb 03   Richard rawlinson: English minister    

Feb 21   Christoph stoltzenberg: Composer   

Feb 28   Aleksei p romanov: Russia, son of peter the great   

Mar 01   Conrad johann conrad beissel: Composer   

Mar 18   Christian goldbach: German mathematician (goldbach position)   

Jan 03   Hillel ben naphtali zevi: Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)   

Feb 07   William morice: English royalist statesman   

Feb 22   Charles le brun: Classical painter (academie de peinture),   

Mar 18   Charles: Duke of lutherans,    

Apr 12   Miguel gomez camargo: Composer,    

Apr 18   Charles v leopold: Duke of lotharingen/austrian fieldmarshal,   

Apr 25   David teniers the younger: Flemish painter (pictorium),    

May 21   John eliot: English missionary in massachusetts,