1690 in England

Incumbents

• Monarchs – William III and Mary II

Events

• 7 January – The first recorded full peal is rung, at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, marking a new era in change ringing.
• March – London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 ("An Act for Reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for Restoreing the City of London to its antient Rights and Privileges") passed by Parliament.
• 20 May – The Act of Grace passed, forgiving followers of the deposed James II.
• 30 June – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Beachy Head: French naval victory over the English and Dutch.
• 1 July (O.S.) – Battle of the Boyne in Ireland: William III defeats the deposed James II who returns to exile in France.
• 25 July – War of the Grand Alliance: French raiders burn Teignmouth in Devon.
• 24 August – In India, Sutanuti – which later becomes Kolkata – is founded by Job Charnock of the English East India Company.
• December – Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri.
• 10 December – Playwright Henry Nevil Payne is tortured for his role in the Montgomery Plot to restore James II to the throne, the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain.
• Quakers John Freame and Thomas Gould form a partnership as bankers in the City of London, origin of Barclays.
• Probable date – Planting of Hampton Court Maze.

Publications

• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (dated this year but published in 1689).
• Political Arithmetic by William Petty.

Births

• 3 February – Richard Rawlinson, minister and antiquarian (died 1755)
• 12 March – George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (died 1742)
• 22 April
  • John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman (died 1763)
  • (baptised) – Robert Raikes the Elder, printer (died 1757)
• 29 October – Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (died 1754)
• 1 December – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor (died 1764)
• 2 December – Robert Shafto, Member of Parliament (died 1729)
• date unknown
  • Charles Bridgeman, garden designer (died 1738)
  • Hester Santlow, dancer and actress (died 1773)

Deaths

• 4 February – Sir John Child, 1st Baronet, governor of Bombay (year of birth unknown)
• 7 February – Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet, Royalist statesman (born c.1628)
• March – Sir Philip Parker, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born c. 1625)
• 21 May – John Eliot, Puritan missionary to Native Americans, died in Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1604)
• 12 July – George Walker, soldier, killed in action at the Battle of the Boyne (born (1645)
• 9 October – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, illegitimate son of King Charles II, military commander, died of wounds received at Siege of Cork (born 1663)
• 15 October – Thomas and Ann Rogers, counterfeiters, executed
• By 10 December – Sir Richard Willis, 1st Baronet, Royalist double agent (born 1614)
• 15 December – Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born c. 1633)

References

References

1. Noorthouck, John. (1773). "A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark". R. Baldwin.
2. Equivalent to 10 July in the "[[Old Style and New Style dates. new style]]" [[Gregorian calendar]].
3. Palmer, Alan. (1992). "The Chronology of British History". Century Ltd.
4. Equivalent to 11 July in the "new style" Gregorian calendar, although today commemorated on 12 July.