Explore 135 historical events from 1690–1699.
Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné was a French Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school. His brothers, the lesser-known Jean-Marie Leclair …
Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist and composer (died 1764)
Francesco Antonio Vallotti was an Italian composer, music theorist, and organist.
Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist and composer (died 1780)
Charles VII was elector of Bavaria from 26 February 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 to his death on 20 January 1745. He was also King of Bohemia from 1741 to 1743.…
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1745)
The Peace of Ryswick, or Rijswijk, were a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Rijswijk between 20 September and 30 October 1697. They ended the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' …
The first of a series of treaties comprising the Peace of Ryswick was signed between France and the Grand Alliance,…
Tre Kronor or Three Crowns Castle was a castle located in Stockholm, Sweden, on the site where Stockholm Palace is today. It is believed to have been a citadel that Birger Jarl bui…
The 13th-century castle of Tre Kronor in Stockholm burned down; plans for the current royal palace were presented within
The Great Turkish War was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League consisting of the Holy Roman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, Venice, Russia, and the Kingdo…
Great Turkish War: Forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy decisively defeated Ottoman troops at the Battle of Zenta in…
Shivaji II, was the fourth Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire. He was the son of the Maratha Chhatrapati Rajaram I, and his wife Tarabai. He later became the first Raja of Kolhapur …
Shiva Rajaram, infant Chattrapati of the Maratha Empire (died 1726)
Major-General Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet was an American merchant, politician and military officer. He is widely remembered for organizing, financing, and leading the 1745…
William Pepperrell, American merchant and soldier (died 1759)
William Oldys was an English antiquarian and bibliographer.
William Oldys, English historian and author (died 1761)
Maurice Greene was an English composer and organist. He was an admirer and friend of George Frideric Handel.
Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (died 1755)
James Francis Edward Keith was a Scottish-born army officer and Generalfeldmarschall of the Prussian Army. As a Jacobite he took part in a failed attempt to restore the Stuart Mona…
James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (died 1758)
Mahmud I, known as Mahmud the Hunchback, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754. He took over the throne after the quelling of the Patrona Halil rebellion. His reig…
Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (died 1754)
Josef Wenzel I, often referred to as just Wenzel, was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1712 and 1718, and 1748 and 1772, as well as regent of Liechtenstein between 1732 and 1745…
Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (died 1772)
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or Mme de Sévigné, was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her let…
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (born 1626)
Robert Plot was an English naturalist and antiquarian who was the first professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.
Robert Plot, English chemist and academic (born 1640)
Mariana of Austria was Queen of Spain from 1649 until her husband Philip IV of Spain died in 1665. Appointed Regent for their infant son Charles II, she remained an influential fig…
Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (born 1634)
Henry Capell, Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, KB, PC was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1692. He was then created Baron Capell.
Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1638)
John III Sobieski was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696.
John III Sobieski, Polish king (born 1629)
Robert Campbell, 5th Laird of Glenlyon, was a minor member of Scottish nobility and is best known as one of the commanding officers at the Massacre of Glencoe.
Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (born 1630)
The 1695 Linfen earthquake struck Shanxi Province in North China, Qing dynasty on May 18. Occurring at a shallow depth within the continental crust, the surface-wave magnitude 7.8 …
The 1695 Linfen earthquake in Shannxi, Qing dynasty causes extreme damage and kills at least 52,000 people
During the Nine Years' War, the French Royal Army carried out a bombardment of Brussels from August 13–15, 1695. Led by King Louis XIV and the Duke of Villeroi, French forces bomba…
French forces end the bombardment of Brussels.
Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery, sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-169…
Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship…
Jean-Nicolas Servan, also known as Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, was an Italian decorator, architect, painter, firework designer and trompe-l'œil specialist.
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French painter and architect (died 1766)
Henri Pitot was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube.
Henri Pitot, French physicist and engineer, invented the Pitot tube (died 1771)