| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1690/05/21 | Port Royal governor, Louis-Alexandre des Friches de Menneval, with only about 70 men, and no guns mounted, surrenders to William Phips, leading seven vessels carrying a 450-strong provincial "Foot Regiment". | Port-Royal National Historic Site of Canada, Granville Ferry, CA |
| 1690/08/00 | Sargent Thomas Faxon, yeoman of the town of Braintree pressed out in the service of the Country in the Expedition against the French and Indians towards Canada, dies of Small Pox before it sails for Canada. Faxon was buried at Weymouth, Mass. | Hull, MA, Massachusetts |
| 1690/08/20 | Inadequately supplied with ammunition, William Phips' expedition departs from Hull, Colony of Massachusetts Bay. | Hull, MA, Massachusetts |
| 1690/10/00 | Bad weather, contrary winds and lack of pilots familiar with the Saint Lawrence River slow William Phips' progress. | |
| 1690/10/16 | William Phips' expedition of about 32 ships (only four of which are of any size) and over 2,300 Massachusetts militiamen arrives in Quebec Basin. | Fortifications of Quebec National Historic Site of Canada, Quebec City |
| 1690/10/16 | Phips' envoy, Major Thomas Savage, tells French commander, Louis de Buade de Frontenac, he has one hour to surrender Quebec. The Bishop of Quebec stops Frontenac from hanging Savage. | Fortifications of Quebec National Historic Site of Canada, Quebec City |
| 1690/10/20 | William Phips' New England militia attack French earthworks, losing 150 men. | |
| 1690/10/22 | New England militia abandon five field guns on the shore and make a hasty retreat. | |
| 1690/10/23 | On the 23rd and 24th, New England and French combatants exchange of prisoners. | |
| 1690/10/24 | William Phips' expedition sets sail for Boston, Colony of Massachusetts Bay. About 1,000 Massachusetts militia men died during the fighting, from small pox and freezing weather. | |
| 1690/10/31 | Captain Stephen Greenleaf, Lt James Smith, ensign William Longfellow, sergeant Increase Pilsbury, William Mitchell, Jabez Musgrave of Newbury and four more are cast away and drowned at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. | Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Canada, Nova Scotia |
| 1690/10/31 | Ensign William Longfellow of the Newbury Company is drowned with nine others off Anticosta during a violent storm on their return home from William Phips expedition against Quebec. |
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