Explore 135 historical events from 1690–1699.
Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg was a German nobleman.
Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim (died 1766)
Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault was a French singer and composer.
Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, French singer-songwriter (died 1791)
Pietro Antonio Locatelli was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.
Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violin player and composer (died 1764)
Count Carl Gustaf Tessin was a Swedish count and politician and son of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock. He was one of the most brilliant persona…
Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (died 1770)
Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, was a Hieronymite nun and a Novohispanic writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baro…
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican poet and scholar (born 1651)
Henry Vaughan was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician. His religious poetry appeared in Silex Scintillans in 1650, with a s…
Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet and author (born 1621)
Sir John Trenchard was an English politician and landowner.
John Trenchard, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1640)
André Félibien, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, was a French chronicler of the arts and official court historian to King Louis XIV.
André Félibien, French historian and author (born 1619)
Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. In physic…
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (born 1629)
Johannes Camphuys was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1684 to 1691. Camphuys was born in Haarlem, in the Republic of the United Netherlands.
Johannes Camphuys, Dutch politician, Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (born 1634)
François de Harlay de Champvallon was the fifth Archbishop of Paris.
François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (born 1625)
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 …
An earthquake measuring
The Wren Building is a building in the College Yard on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. First constructed between 1695 and 1700 to host studen…
The foundation for what is now known as the Wren Building, the oldest surviving college building in the United States,…
A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous exampl…
A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England.
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington was a British architect and politician often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl". The son of the 2nd Earl of Burlington a…
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect and politician, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (died 1753)
Daniel Gran was an Austrian painter. His pictures ornament several public buildings in his native city. He was of some consideration in his time and after a century of Italian domi…
Daniel Gran, Austrian painter (died 1757)
François Quesnay was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" in 1758, which provided the foundations of the…
François Quesnay, French economist and physician (died 1774)
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui was a Genevan legal and political theorist who popularised a number of ideas propounded by other thinkers.
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss author and theorist (died 1748)
Georg Brandt was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered cobalt c. 1735. He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times. He is also known for exposi…
Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (died 1768)
Louis-Claude Daquin was a French composer, writing in the Baroque and Galant styles. He was a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist.
Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist and composer (died 1772)
Leonardo Leo, more correctly Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, was a Baroque composer.
Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (died 1744)
Elisha Williams was a Congregational minister, legislator, militia soldier, jurist, and rector of Yale College from 1726 to 1739.
Elisha Williams, English colonial minister, academic, and politician (died 1755)
Francis Hutcheson was an Irish philosopher widely regarded as one of the key figures of the early Scottish Enlightenment. He served as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Universi…
Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher and academic (died 1746)
František Antonín Míča was a conductor, tenor singer and composer from Bohemia.
František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer (died 1744)