• Events from the year 1690 in France Monarch – Louis XIV 1 July – Battle of Fleurus 10 July – Battle of Beachy Head 18 August – Battle of Staffarda François...
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    1690 (MDCXC) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1690th...
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    current territory of the U.S. state of Texas: Spain (1519–1685; 1690–1821), France (1685–1690), Mexico (1821–1836), the Republic of Texas (1836–1845), the...
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    was a fleet action fought on 10 July 1690 during the Nine Years' War. The battle was the most significant French naval victory over their English and...
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    1 July 1690 near Fleurus, then part of the Spanish Netherlands, now in modern Belgium, was a major engagement of the Nine Years' War. A French army led...
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    Christine Victoria of Bavaria (French: Marie Anne Victoire; 28 November 1660 – 20 April 1690) was Dauphine of France by marriage to Louis, Grand Dauphin...
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    with France Act 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 34) was an Act passed by the Parliament of England which prohibited all trade and commerce with France, effective...
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    The French-Algerian War of 1681–1688 was part of a wider campaign by France against the Barbary Pirates in the 1680s. King Louis XIV sought to have the...
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    of Québec was fought in October 1690 between the colonies of New France and Massachusetts Bay, then ruled by the kingdoms of France and England, respectively...
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    Battle of Staffarda (category 1690 in France)
    supply problems. By 1690, the Nine Years' War was in its third year, with both France and the Allies focusing their main effort in the Spanish Netherlands...
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  • in April 1689 and launched in March of the following year. She was completed in May 1690 and took part in the Battle of Beachy Head on 10 July 1690....
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    The siege of Belgrade in 1690 was the fifth siege of that city, taking place during the Great Turkish War. Belgrade had been conquered by the Austrians...
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    Éireannach, French: Brigade irlandaise) was a brigade in the French Royal Army composed of Irish exiles, led by Lord Mountcashel. It was formed in May 1690 when...
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    Barrage Vauban (category 1690 establishments in France)
    bridges and Petite France quarter. It has been classified as a Monument historique since 1971. The barrage was constructed from 1686 to 1690 in pink Vosges sandstone...
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    Jules Hardouin-Mansart (category Pages with French IPA)
    work included the Place des Victoires (1684–1690); Place Vendôme (1690); the domed chapel of Les Invalides (1690), and the Grand Trianon of the Palace of...
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    (1896 - 1943) Shanghai French Concession (1896 - 1943) Shamian Island, Guangzhou (1896 - 1943) Commonwealth of Dominica (1690 - 1763) Grenada (1649 -1763)...
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  • killed during a fight with a French privateer. January 27 - William Coward, after seizing the ketch Elenor anchored in Boston Harbor the previous year...
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    July 1690) was a German-born military officer and nobleman who served as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1689 to 1690. Having fought in the French, Portuguese...
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    of the Boyne in 1690, France accumulated a string of victories from Flanders in the north, Germany in the east, and Italy and Spain in the south, to...
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    French cuisine is the cooking traditions and practices from France. In the 14th century, Guillaume Tirel, a court chef known as "Taillevent", wrote Le...
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    India Company fort in Bombay. After a year of resistance, a famine broke out due to the blockade, the Company surrendered, and in 1690 the company sent...
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  • (born 1980), daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton Charles Clinton (1690–1773), French and Indian War colonel, father of James and George Clinton James Clinton...
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    of the Boyne in July 1690, before victory at Beachy Head gave the French temporary control of the English Channel. James returned to France to urge an immediate...
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  • The imperial election of 1690 was an imperial election held to select the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. It took place in Augsburg on January 23. On...
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  • Franco-Dutch in favour of the Netherlands) (25.8% of the current territory) (1814) Present-day Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Christopher Island (1628–1690, 1698–1702...
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  • the year 1690 in Ireland. Monarch: William III and Mary II 14 June – King William III of England (William of Orange) lands at Carrickfergus in Ulster and...
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  • Philomèle, a lost opera written in 1690 by French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier Philomèle, an opera written in 1705 by French composer Louis de La Coste...
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  • France (/ˈdɔːfiːn, dɔːˈfiːn/, also US: /ˈdoʊfiːn, doʊˈfiːn/, French: [dofin]) was the wife of the dauphin of France (the heir apparent to the French throne)...
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    the resistance of the French at Quebec during the siege of General William Phips in 1690. In France, Canada and New France in general caught the interest...
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    entered the region. In 1690, French woodcutters from Martinique and Guadeloupe begin to set up timber camps to supply the French islands with wood and...
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