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...

France (d. 1709) March 13 – Joseph Beaumont, British academic and poet (d. 1699) March 16 – Thomas Jervoise, English politician (d. 1693) March 29 – Johann...

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...

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

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)...

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...