1690 in England

• Monarchs – William III and Mary II

• 7 January – The first recorded full peal is rung, at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, marking a new era in change ringing.
• March – London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 ("An Act for Reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for Restoreing the City of London to its antient Rights and Privileges") passed by Parliament.{{cite book|first=John|last=Noorthouck|author-link=John Noorthouck|title=A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark|location=London|publisher=R. Baldwin|year=1773|volume=1|chapter=Chapter 17: From the Revolution to the death of William III|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/new-history-london/pp272-288|access-date=2015-05-06}}
• 20 May – The Act of Grace passed, forgiving followers of the deposed James II.
• 30 June – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Beachy Head: French naval victory over the English and Dutch.Equivalent to 10 July in the "new style" Gregorian calendar.{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=197–198|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
• 1 July (O.S.) – Battle of the Boyne in Ireland: William III defeats the deposed James II who returns to exile in France.Equivalent to 11 July in the "new style" Gregorian calendar, although today commemorated on 12 July.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/285|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/285 285]}}
• 25 July – War of the Grand Alliance: French raiders burn Teignmouth in Devon.
• 24 August – In India, Sutanuti – which later becomes Kolkata – is founded by Job Charnock of the English East India Company.
• December – Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri.
• 10 December – Playwright Henry Nevil Payne is tortured for his role in the Montgomery Plot to restore James II to the throne, the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain.
• Quakers John Freame and Thomas Gould form a partnership as bankers in the City of London, origin of Barclays.
• Probable date – Planting of Hampton Court Maze.

• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (dated this year but published in 1689).
• Political Arithmetic by William Petty.

• 3 February – Richard Rawlinson, minister and antiquarian (died 1755)
• 12 March – George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (died 1742)
• 22 April
• John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman (died 1763)
• (baptised) – Robert Raikes the Elder, printer (died 1757)
• 29 October – Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (died 1754)
• 1 December – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor (died 1764)
• 2 December – Robert Shafto, Member of Parliament (died 1729)
• date unknown
• Charles Bridgeman, garden designer (died 1738)
• Hester Santlow, dancer and actress (died 1773)

• 4 February – Sir John Child, 1st Baronet, governor of Bombay (year of birth unknown)
• 7 February – Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet, Royalist statesman (born c.1628)
• March – Sir Philip Parker, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born c. 1625)
• 21 May – John Eliot, Puritan missionary to Native Americans, died in Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1604)
• 12 July – George Walker, soldier, killed in action at the Battle of the Boyne (born (1645)
• 9 October – 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 – Thomas and Ann Rogers, counterfeiters, executed
• By 10 December – Sir Richard Willis, 1st Baronet, Royalist double agent (born 1614)
• 15 December – Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born c. 1633)

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