Explore 115 historical events from 1690–1699.
William Oldys was an English antiquarian and bibliographer.
William Oldys, English historian and author (died 1761)
Maurice Greene was an English composer and organist. He was an admirer and friend of George Frideric Handel.
Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (died 1755)
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or Mme de Sévigné, was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her let…
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (born 1626)
James Francis Edward Keith was a Scottish-born army officer and Generalfeldmarschall of the Prussian Army. As a Jacobite he took part in a failed attempt to restore the Stuart Mona…
James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (died 1758)
Mahmud I, known as Mahmud the Hunchback, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754. He took over the throne after the quelling of the Patrona Halil rebellion. His reig…
Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (died 1754)
Josef Wenzel I, often referred to as just Wenzel, was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1712 and 1718, and 1748 and 1772, as well as regent of Liechtenstein between 1732 and 1745…
Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (died 1772)
Robert Plot was an English naturalist and antiquarian who was the first professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.
Robert Plot, English chemist and academic (born 1640)
Mariana of Austria was Queen of Spain from 1649 until her husband Philip IV of Spain died in 1665. Appointed Regent for their infant son Charles II, she remained an influential fig…
Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (born 1634)
Henry Capell, Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, KB, PC was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1692. He was then created Baron Capell.
Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1638)
John III Sobieski was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696.
John III Sobieski, Polish king (born 1629)
Robert Campbell, 5th Laird of Glenlyon, was a minor member of Scottish nobility and is best known as one of the commanding officers at the Massacre of Glencoe.
Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (born 1630)
During the Nine Years' War, the French Royal Army carried out a bombardment of Brussels from August 13–15, 1695. Led by King Louis XIV and the Duke of Villeroi, French forces bomba…
French forces end the bombardment of Brussels.
Jean-Nicolas Servan, also known as Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, was an Italian decorator, architect, painter, firework designer and trompe-l'œil specialist.
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French painter and architect (died 1766)
Henri Pitot was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube.
Henri Pitot, French physicist and engineer, invented the Pitot tube (died 1771)
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)
Sir John Trenchard was an English politician and landowner.
John Trenchard, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1640)
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 …
The 1695 Linfen earthquake in Shannxi, Qing dynasty causes extreme damage and kills at least 52,000 people
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)
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)