Explore 135 historical events from 1690–1699.
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people…
Salem witch trials: In Salem, province of Massachusetts Bay, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., John Proctor, John…
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, was a French nobleman and politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1723 to 1726. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a …
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (died 1740)
Johannes Zollikofer was a Swiss reformed vicar.
Johannes Zollikofer, Swiss vicar (born 1633)
Elias Ashmole was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer, freemason and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War,…
Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (born 1617)
Bridget Bishop was a midwife and the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. A…
Bridget Bishop, Colonial Massachusetts woman hanged as a witch during the Salem witch trials (born 1632)
Gilles Ménage was a French scholar.
Gilles Ménage, French lawyer, philologist, and scholar (born 1613)
The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica, on 7 June. A stopped pocket watch found in the harbour during a 1959 excavation indicated that it occurred around 11:43 AM l…
An earthquake registering approximately 7
Bridget Bishop was a midwife and the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. A…
Bridget Bishop became the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts
Giles Corey was an English-born farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. After bein…
Giles Corey, American farmer and accused wizard (born c. 1612)
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people…
Salem witch trials: Giles Corey was crushed to death for refusing to enter a plea to charges of witchcraft, reportedly…
Godard van Reede, 1st Earl of Athlone was a Dutch States Army officer and nobleman who rose to prominence during the Williamite War in Ireland. During the Franco-Dutch War, his bra…
A Williamite army under Godert de Ginkell takes the city of Athlone from the Jacobites after a short siege
The Battle of Aughrim was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the largely Irish Jacobite army loyal to James II and the forces of William II…
Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar): The decisive victory of William III of England's forces in Ireland.
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden was the ruling Margrave of Baden-Baden in Germany, chief commander of the Imperial army and Reichsgeneralfeldmarschall of the Holy Roman Empi…
An Imperial army under Ludwig of Baden defeats the Ottomans in the battle of Slankamen.
Jan Francisci was an organist and composer born in Neusohl, Kingdom of Hungary. In 1709, he succeeded his father as cantor there before going to Vienna in 1722. He visited J.S. Bac…
Jan Francisci, Slovak organist and composer (died 1758)
Jacob Leisler was a German-born politician and colonial administrator in the Province of New York. He gained wealth in New Amsterdam in the North American fur trade and tobacco bus…
Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (born 1640)
Adrien Auzout French pronunciation: [ozu.(t‿)] was a French astronomer.
Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker (born 1622)
Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp, Count of Sølvesborg was a Dutch naval officer who served as lieutenant-admiral general in the Dutch Navy, and briefly as a general admiral in the Royal…
Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (born 1629)
Charles Chalmot de Saint-Ruhe was a French cavalry officer, serving in the armies of Louis XIV.
Marquis de St Ruth, French general
Giovanni Paolo, also known as Gian Paolo Panini or Pannini, was an Italian Baroque painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the vedutisti. As a pai…
Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (died 1765)
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary; and Archduchess of Austria, et…
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress (died 1750)
François Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois was the French Secretary of State for War during a significant part of the reign of Louis XIV. He is commonly referred to as "Louvois…
François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French politician, French Secretary of State for War (born 1641)
Daniel Georg Morhof was a German writer and scholar.
Daniel Georg Morhof, German scholar and academic (born 1639)
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, was an Irish politician, courtier and soldier.
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician (born 1630)
Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha served as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1689 to 1691, when the Empire was engaged in a war against the Holy League countries in the Gr…
Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman commander and politician, 117th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1637)