The 1690s decade ran from January 1, 1690, to December 31, 1699. January 2 – The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbian rebels and Austrian troops in battle at...

slave transports, organized by Captain Juan Barroso del Pozo, of 9,800 "negros" to Curaçao. In 1680, Barroso from Seville and Nicolás Porcio, his Venetian...

January 13 – Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic and adventurer (d. 1680) January 16 – François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)...

Count of Ericeira, Portuguese noble (d. 1699) November 30 – William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford of England (d. 1680) December 16 – Eberhard III, Duke of...

appear'd in December 1680, 3 volumes (1682). Subtitled: Chiefly tending to explode popular superstitions. An account of the Great Comet of 1680, the first to...

Welsh cleric who helped to "correct" the 1690 edition of the Welsh Bible (d. 1699) April 14 – Ulrik Adolf Holstein, Danish nobleman and statesman (d. 1737)...