Events from the year 1690 in England.
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Births
- 3 February â Richard Rawlinson, minister and antiquarian (died 1755)
- 12 March â George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (died 1742)
- 22 April
- John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman (died 1763)
- (baptised) â Robert Raikes the Elder, printer (died 1757)
- 29 October â Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (died 1754)
- 1 December â Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor (died 1764)
- 2 December â Robert Shafto, Member of Parliament (died 1729)
- date unknown
- Charles Bridgeman, garden designer (died 1738)
- Hester Santlow, dancer and actress (died 1773)
Deaths
- 4 February â Sir John Child, 1st Baronet, governor of Bombay (year of birth unknown)
- 7 February â Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet, Royalist statesman (born c.1628)
- March â Sir Philip Parker, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born c. 1625)
- 21 May â John Eliot, Puritan missionary to Native Americans, died in Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1604)
- 12 July â George Walker, soldier, killed in action at the Battle of the Boyne (born (1645)
- 9 October â Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, illegitimate son of King Charles II, military commander, died of wounds received at Siege of Cork (born 1663)
- 15 October â Thomas and Ann Rogers, counterfeiters, executed
- By 10 December â Sir Richard Willis, 1st Baronet, Royalist double agent (born 1614)
- 15 December â Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born c. 1633)
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