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| Years: 1690 1691 1692 - 1693 - 1694 1695 1696 | |
| Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
Events
- January 11 - Eruption of Mt. Etna.
- February 8 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter
- July 29 - The Battle of Landen
- October 11 – Charleloi falls to the French forces
- China concentrates all its foreign trade to Canton – European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else
- Sect of Amish formed
- Knights of Apocalypse formed in Italy
- Academia operosorum Labacensis established in Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Financier Richard Hoare founds Hoare's Bank in London.
Births
- February 7 - Princess Anna Ivanova Romanov later Empress Anna I of Russia
- March 5 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, theologian, (d. 1754)
- March 7 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
- April 3 - George Edwards, naturalist (d. 1773)
- Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1768)
Deaths
- September - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath
- William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1616)
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