* 1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.

* 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

* 1689 – The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.

* 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.

* 1689 – 1, 500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France.

* 1689 – The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.

* 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

* Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg: 1269 – 1689

* Magnoald Ziegelbauer ( 1689 – 1750 )

Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558 – 1689.

New England suffered smallpox epidemics in 1677, 1689 – 90, and 1702.

* 1626 – Queen Christina of Sweden ( d. 1689 )

* 1689 – Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.

* 1640 – ( baptism date ) – Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist ( d. 1689 )

Initially fighting on the Rhine with Max Emmanuel – receiving a slight head wound at the Siege of Mainz in 1689 – Eugene subsequently transferred himself to Piedmont after Victor Amadeus joined the Alliance against France in 1690.

In response to the early-to-mid-17th century " continental rationalism " John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) a very influential view wherein the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori, i. e., based upon experience.

* 1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.

* 1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.

* 1689 – Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, choir director, historian, and geographer ( d. 1775 )

Equally influential was Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu ( 1689 – 1755 ).

The practice was introduced to the west by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( May 26, 1689 – August 21, 1762 ).

* 1761 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( b. 1689 )

* 1769 – Edward Holyoke, American clergyman, 9th President of Harvard University ( b. 1689 )

* June 1 – Edward Holyoke, American President of Harvard University ( b. 1689 )

* Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby ( 1689 – 1776 ) of the Stanley Baronets, of Bickerstaffe ( 1627 )

* Sir Edward Stanley, 5th Baronet ( 1689 – 1776 ) ( succeeded as 11th Earl of Derby in 1736 )

* Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich ( 1644 – 1689 )

he was adopted by his godfather, Edward Hearst, and his wife, and was sent to Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1689.

* Edward Watson, 2nd Baron Rockingham ( 1630 – 1689 )

Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey ( c. 1656 – 25 August 1711 ) son of Sir Edward Villiers ( 1620 – 1689 ) of Richmond and Frances Howard, the youngest daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and Elizabeth Hume, was created Baron Villiers and Viscount Villiers in 1691 and Earl of Jersey in 1697.

This preceding oath — first taken by George V in 1910 — is a moderated version of the oath below which had been taken by every English and British monarch since William and Mary in 1689 until Edward VII in 1901, and which, by the early 20th century, was deemed too overtly anti-Catholic:

* Edward Purcell, son of Henry Purcell ( b. 1689, appt.

* Sir Thomas Gower, 3rd Baronet ( c. 1666 – 1689 ), a son of Edward, died unmarried

* Edward Noel, 4th Viscount Campden ( 1641 – 1689 ) ( created Earl of Gainsborough in 1682 )

* Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough ( 1641 – 1689 )

* Edward Wooster ( 1622 – 1689 ), early pioneer and founder of Derby, Connecticut

** Edward Osborne, Viscount Latimer ( 1655 – 1689 ), eldest son of the 1st Duke, died without surviving issue

** Edward Purcell, organist ( born 1689 )

* Edward Purcell ( musician ) ( 1689 – 1740 ), English composer

* 1713 Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer ( 1689 – 1741 )

Edward Wooster ( 1622 in England – July 8, 1689 ) was an English early pioneer of Colonial America, and " the first permanent settler in Derby "

Edward Holyoke ( June 26, 1689 – June 1, 1769 ) was an early American clergyman, and the 9th President of Harvard College.

* 1678 – 1689 Edward Stillingfleet

* Frances Howard ( d. October 1677 ), married Sir Edward Villiers ( d. 1689 )

* Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby ( 1689 – 1776 ), British peer and politician