Explore 60 historical events from 1690–1699.
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)
Sir John Trenchard was an English politician and landowner.
John Trenchard, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1640)
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)
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)
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 …
An earthquake measuring
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington was a British architect and politician often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl". The son of the 2nd Earl of Burlington a…
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect and politician, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (died 1753)
Daniel Gran was an Austrian painter. His pictures ornament several public buildings in his native city. He was of some consideration in his time and after a century of Italian domi…
Daniel Gran, Austrian painter (died 1757)
François Quesnay was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" in 1758, which provided the foundations of the…
François Quesnay, French economist and physician (died 1774)
John George IV was Elector of Saxony from 1691 to 1694. He belonged to the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin and was the eldest son of John George III, Elector of Saxony and …
John George IV, Elector of Saxony (born 1668)
Philip Howard was an English Roman Catholic cardinal.
Philip Howard, English cardinal (born 1629)
Johann Georg Walch was a German Lutheran theologian.
Johann Georg Walch, German theologian and author (died 1775)
Claude de Rouvroy, 1st Duke of Saint-Simon, was a French soldier and courtier, and favourite of Louis XIII, who created his dukedom for him. His only son Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of …
Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (born 1607)
Sir John Wildman was an English politician, republican activist and soldier. A prominent Leveller during the English Civil War, he helped draft the Agreement of the People and late…
John Wildman, English soldier and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (born 1621)
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 is the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts; she was found guilty the same day
Port Royal was a town located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest and m…
Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are s
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: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts ca
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gr…
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Geminiano Giacomelli was an Italian composer.
Geminiano Giacomelli, Italian composer (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)
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