Decades: 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s

Years: 1685 1686 1687 1688 1689 - 1690 - 1691 1692 1693 1694 1695

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• Giovanni Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.

• January 6 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans
• January 14 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany
• May 20 - England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
• July 1 - The Battle of the Boyne, in Ireland
• Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogued it as the star 34 Tauri
• October 6-12--Massachusetts Puritans led by Sir William Phips besiege the city of Quebec. The siege ends in failure.

• 1690 in science

• February 1 - Francesco Maria Veracini, composer
• March 18 - Christian Goldbach (Prussian mathematician)