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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).

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Events of 1689

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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

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★ The Estates of Scotland declare King James VII of Scotland deposed.

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★ 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 2489 - 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 - Lord William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine (Attained) Second Son of John, Duke of Atholl. Attained for Jacobitism.

★ May 24 - Daniel Finch, 8888th Earl of Spinchilsea, English lawler (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)
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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 - Raje Sambhaji Raje Bhosale

★ 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)
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