1689

Year 1689 (MDCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1689

January - June

• January 11 - The Parliament of England declares King James II of England deposed.
• February 13 - William III and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of * England, Scotland and Ireland. Scotland and Ireland do not yet recognize them.
• March 2 - As French forces leave, they set fire to Heidelberg Castle and the nearby town of Heidelberg (now Germany).
• April 11
  • The Estates of Scotland declare King James VII of Scotland deposed.
  • Crowning of co-rulers King William III and Mary II as King and Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland. Ireland does not recognize them yet.
• May 12 - King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting the war.
• May 24 - The Act of Toleration passes the English Parliament protecting Protestants (Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded).
• May 25 - Last collection of the Hearth Tax in England and Wales. It is abolished by William III of England.
• May 31 - Leisler's Rebellion - Calvinist Jacob Leisler deposes lieutenant governor Francis Nicholson and assumes control of New York colony.

July - December

• July 27 - Glorious Revolution: Battle of Killiecrankie ends.
• August 5 - 1,500 Iroquois attack village of Lachine, in New France.
• August 21 - The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
• August 27 - China and Russia sign the Treaty of Nerchinsk.
• October 6 - Pope Alexander VIII succeeds Pope Innocent XI as the 241st pope.
• 22 November - The Tsar decrees the construction of the Great Siberian Road to China
• December 16 - The official declaration of the English Bill of Rights

Undated

• Supporters of William of Orange seize Liverpool Castle.
• Valvasor's The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola was printed in Nuremberg
• Peter the Great takes full control over Russia.
• Glorious Revolution ends.

Births

• January 18 - Montesquieu, French writer (died 1755)
• February 3 - * Blas de Lezo, notorious almirant of the Spanish Empire
• April 2 - Arthur Dobbs, Irish politician and governor of the Province of North Carolina (died 1765)
• April 14 - William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine, second son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl.
• May 24 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English lawyer (died 1769)
• May 26 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (died 1762)
• June 26 - Edward Holyoke, American President of Harvard University (died 1769)
• July 9 - Alexis Piron, French writer (died 1773)
• August 19 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (died 1761)
• October 22 - King John V of Portugal (died 1750)
• December 23 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (died 1755)

See also Category: 1689 births.

Deaths

• January 6 - Bishop Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (born 1617)
• March 18 - John Dixwell, English judge (born 1607)
• April 16 - Aphra Behn, English author (born 1640)
• April 18 - George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, British Lord Chief Justice (born 1648)
• April 19 - Queen Christina of Sweden (born 1626)
• May 14 - Sambhaji (born 1657)
• July 8 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (born 1622)
• August 12 - Pope Innocent XI (born 1611)
• August 21 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier (born c. 1661)
• November 26 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (born 1635)
• December 6 - Pjetër Bogdani, Albanian priest and writer (born c. 1630)
• December 29 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (born 1624)

See also Category: 1689 deaths.af:1689

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