Editing 1690 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 6]]
**[[Massachusetts]] [[Puritan]]s, led by Sir [[William Phips]], besiege the city of [[Quebec]]; the siege ends in failure after six days.
**An earthquake with strength 5.2 occurs in [[Caernarfon]], [[Wales]], causing tremors that can be felt as far away as London and Dublin.<ref name="BbcE8c10f15">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/e8c10f15-510f-3e76-966b-dafcab3ba427|title=BBC Blogs - Wales - Earthquakes in Wales|website=bbc.co.uk|date=June 21, 2012 |accessdate=October 5, 2022}}</ref><ref name="OakeleyarmsEarthquake">{{Cite web|url=https://oakeleyarms.co.uk/earthquake-in-wales/|title=Earthquake in Wales|website=Oakeley Arms|author=Daydream Designs|date=May 31, 2015 |accessdate=October 5, 2022}}</ref>
* [[October 8]] – [[Great Turkish War]]: The Ottomans [[Siege of Belgrade (1690)|recapture Belgrade]].
* [[October 16]] – [[Lawrence Justinian]] (1381–1456) and [[John of Sahagún]] (c. 1430–79) are [[Canonization|canonized]] by [[Pope Alexander VIII]].<ref name="Catholic">{{Cite web|url=https://catholic.net/op/articles/1650/cat/1205/-saint-lawrence-giustiniani.html|title=Catholic.net - Saint Lawrence Giustiniani|website=catholic.net|accessdate=October 5, 2022}}</ref><ref name="CatholicSt">{{Cite web|url=https://catholic.net/op/articles/2543/cat/1205/st-john-of-sahagun.html|title=Catholic.net - St. John of Sahagun|website=catholic.net|accessdate=October 5, 2022}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] – The play ''Amphitryon'' by [[John Dryden]], based on [[Molière]]'s [[Amphitryon (Molière)|1668 play of the same name]], receives its first performance at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], [[London]].
* [[November 7]] – The opera ''Énée et Lavinie'' (''Aeneas and Lavinia'') by the French composer [[Pascal Collasse]] receives its first performance at the Académie Royale de Musique (the [[Paris Opera]]).
* [[November 9]] – Near [[South Mimms]], England, several highwaymen stop a convoy carrying taxes from the [[Midlands]] to [[London]] and take £15,000.<ref name="Southmimms-Pc9Th">{{Cite web|url=https://www.southmimms-pc.org.uk/9th-november-1690-highway-robbery/|title=9th November 1690 Highway Robbery – South Mimms Parish Council|website=southmimms-pc.org.uk|date=November 9, 2019 |accessdate=October 5, 2022}}</ref>
* [[November 17]] – [[Barclays]], which will continue to be active into the 21st century as a multinational bank and lending institution, is founded in [[London]] by John Freame and Thomas Gould as Freame & Gould. The bank changes its name in 1736 when James Barclay becomes a partner.  
* [[December 4]] – A destructive earthquake in the [[Eastern Alps]] causes 24 casualties and results in damage in the [[Villach]], [[Carinthia]] area.<ref name="EmidiusIi">{{Cite web|url=https://emidius.mi.ingv.it/RHISE/ii_9eis/ii_9eis.html|title=RHISE VOL. 2 - Eisinger and Gutdeutsch, The Villach Earthquake of December 4th, 1690 in the German Sources.|website=emidius.mi.ingv.it|accessdate=October 5, 2022}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] –Playwright [[Henry Nevil Payne]] is tortured for his role in the [[Montgomery Plot]] to restore [[James II of England|James II]] to the throne — the last time a political prisoner is legally subjected to torture in Britain.<ref>"Judicial Torture, the Liberties of the Subject and Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1660-1960, by [[Clare Jackson]], in ''Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1603 to 1900'', ed. by T. C. Smout (Oxford University Press and British Academy, 2005) pp.96-97</ref>
* [[December 13]] – The [[planet]] [[Uranus]] is first sighted and recorded, by England's first [[Astronomer Royal]], [[John Flamsteed]], who mistakenly catalogs it as a [[star]] ''34 [[Taurus (constellation)|Tauri]]''.<ref>Francis Baily, ''An Account of the Rev'd John Flamsteed, to Which is Added his British Catalogue of Stars'' (Lords Commission of the Admiralty, 1835) p. 393</ref>
* [[December 20]] (December 10, 1690 O.S.) — The General Court of the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]] creates the first authorized paper money issued by any government in the [[Western World]] as a substitute for coins.<ref name=AMcD>Andrew McFarland Davis, ''Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay'', Volume 1, Issue 4 (American Economic Association, 1900) p.10, p.370</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Newman |first=Eric P. |title=The Early Paper Money of America |edition=3rd |location=Iola, Wisconsin |publisher=Krause Publications |date=1990 |page=11 |isbn=0-87341-120-X}}</ref> The first money is printed on February 13, 1691 (N.S.) and is dated "Feb. 3, 1690" based on the British old style calendar in use at the time.<ref name=AMcD/>
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* [[December 29]] – An earthquake hits [[Ancona]], in the [[Papal States]] of [[Italy]] and causes 10 deaths.<ref>[https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/1121 "Significant Earthquake Information: 1690 April 16], NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information</ref>