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).

[edit] Events of 1689

[edit] January - June

March 2: Heidelberg Castle was burned.

• 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 - Nine Years' War: 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.
  • William III and Mary II are crowned 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 - The last Hearth Tax is collected 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.

[edit] July - December

• July 27 - Glorious Revolution - Battle of Killiecrankie: Jacobite forces defeat the Orange Royalists.
• August 5 - A force of 1,500 Iroquois attacks the village of Lachine, in New France.
• August 21 - Battle of Dunkeld: English Orange Royalists defeat the Jacobite Royalists 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 English Bill of Rights is officially declared in force.

[edit] Undated

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

[edit] Births

• January 18 - Montesquieu, French writer (d. 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 (d. 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 (d. 1769)
• May 26 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)
• June 26 - Edward Holyoke, American President of Harvard University (d. 1769)
• July 9 - Alexis Piron, French writer (d. 1773)
• August 19 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761)
• October 22 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
• December 23 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (d. 1755)

See also Category: 1689 births.

[edit] Deaths

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

See also Category: 1689 deaths.