Events from the year1690 inEngland.

• Monarchs –William III andMary II

• 7 January – The first recorded full peal is rung, atSt Sepulchre-without-Newgate in theCity of London, marking a new era inchange ringing.
• March –London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 ("An Act for Reversing the Judgment in aQuo Warranto against the City of London and for Restoreing the City of London to its antient Rights and Privileges") passed by Parliament.^[1]
• 20 May – The Act of Grace passed, forgiving followers of the deposedJames II.
• 30 June –War of the Grand Alliance:Battle of Beachy Head:French naval victory over the English andDutch.^[2][3]
• 1 July (O.S.) –Battle of the Boyne inIreland:William III defeats the deposedJames II who returns to exile in France.^[4][5]
• 25 July – War of the Grand Alliance: French raiders burnTeignmouth inDevon.^[3]
• 24 August – InIndia,Sutanuti – which later becomesKolkata – is founded byJob Charnock of theEnglish East India Company.^[5]
• December – Earliest recorded sighting of the planetUranus, byJohn Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as thestar 34Tauri.
• 10 December – PlaywrightHenry Nevil Payne is tortured for his role in theMontgomery Plot to restoreJames II to the throne, the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain.
• QuakersJohn Freame and Thomas Gould form a partnership as bankers in the City of London, origin ofBarclays.
• Probable date – Planting ofHampton Court Maze.

• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding byJohn Locke^[5] (dated this year but published in 1689).
• Political Arithmetic byWilliam Petty.^[5]

• 3 February –Richard Rawlinson, minister and antiquarian (died1755)
• 12 March –George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (died1742)
• 22 April
  • John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman (died1763)
  • (baptised) –Robert Raikes the Elder, printer (died1757)
• 29 October –Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (died1754)
• 1 December –Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke,Lord Chancellor (died1764)
• 2 December –Robert Shafto, Member of Parliament (died1729)
• date unknown
  • Charles Bridgeman, garden designer (died1738)
  • Hester Santlow, dancer and actress (died1773)

• 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 (born1604)
• 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 ofKing Charles II, military commander, died of wounds received at Siege of Cork (born1663)
• 15 October – Thomas and Ann Rogers, counterfeiters, executed
• By 10 December –Sir Richard Willis, 1st Baronet, Royalist double agent (born1614)
• 15 December –Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born c.1633)

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