1689 Totally Explained

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 don't 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 doesn't 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 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.

Louis XIV of France passes the "Code Noir", allowing the full use of slaves in the French colonies.

Valvasor's The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola was printed in Nuremberg

Births

January 18 - Montesquieu, French writer (died 1755)

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 .

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 .

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