* 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 ).

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

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

His grandson, John, Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, rode from Craigdarroch to Killiecrankie in 1689, where he was killed in battle.

He was still a minor and titulary colonel of the Regiment of Tyrone on 18 April 1689.

The Regiment has been awarded over 200 battle honours, from Blenheim to the Gulf War, gained in every major and many minor conflicts, campaigns and theates of war since the 21st Regiment's first engagement at the Battle of Walcourt in 1689, a number unsurpassed by any other unit in the British Army.

He travelled to England in Spring 1689 and was made colonel of Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse on 10 April 1690 and commissioned a general of the horse on 19 April 1690.

The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British army originally formed in 1689 as James Wynne's Regiment of Dragoons.

Most of the original town was destroyed during the Battle of Dunkeld when, in August 1689, the 26th Foot ( Cameronian Regiment ) successfully fought the Jacobites shortly after their victory at the Battle of Killiecrankie.

It first came into existence, as the 24th Regiment of Foot, in 1689, but was not called the South Wales Borderers until 1881.

The regiment was formed as Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot in 1689, becoming known, like other regiments, by the names of its subsequent colonels.

* the 26th ( Cameronian ) Regiment of Foot, a regiment of the British Army raised from among the Cameronians, in existence from 1689 to 1881

The 22nd Foot was raised by the Duke of Norfolk in 1689 and was able to boast an independent existence of over 325 years, being one of five line infantry regiments never to have been amalgamated in its history ; Up to 2006, it shared this claim with:

In 1689, Janez Vajkard Valvasor, a pioneer of study of karst in Slovenia and a fellow of the The Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, London, introduced the word karst to European scholars, describing the phenomenon of underground flows of rivers.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263: 1689 – 1696.

* March 27 – Arthur Dobbs, Irish politician and governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina ( b. 1689 )

At one stage the trade was the monopoly of the Royal Africa Company, operating out of London, but following the loss of the company's monopoly in 1689, Bristol and Liverpool merchants became increasingly involved in the trade.

In 1689 his health, never very strong, began to fail seriously and he gradually withdrew from his public engagements, ceasing his communications to the Royal Society, and advertising his desire to be excused from receiving guests, " unless upon occasions very extraordinary ", on Tuesday and Friday forenoon, and Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.

During King William's War ( 1689 to 1697 ) military conflicts in Acadia included: Battle of Port Royal ( 1690 ); a naval battle in the Bay of Fundy ( Action of July 14, 1696 ); and the Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 ).

* June 1689 – 22 September 1713 His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy

This action became known as the Protestant Revolution of 1689, and resulted in the reversion of Lord Baltimore's proprietary charter and the province being converted into a Royal colony.

On two occasions he was Lord High Admiral for a short period ; he was also Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, while he acted as one of the Lords Justices seven times ; and he was President of the Royal Society in 1689 – 1690.

In the process, the Bill of Rights 1689 was amended by the Defamation Bill which became act by Royal Assent in July 1996.

The maintenance of a certain level of merchant shipping and of trade generally also facilitated a rapid increase in the size and quality of the Royal Navy, which eventually ( after the Anglo-Dutch Alliance of 1689 limited the Dutch navy to three-fifths of the size of the English one ) led to Britain becoming a global superpower until the mid-20th century.

During the long series of wars against the French that began in 1689 and lasted until 1815, the Royal Navy came into Brixham to get supplies of fresh vegetables, beef and water.

In 1689, the Royal Mint began using a design for the reverse of the four low-denomination silver coins depicting a crowned numeral.

In 1689 the Royal Welch Fusiliers were founded at the Castle by Lord Herbert of Chirbury but soon after it was abandoned and gradually fell into decay.

As the university was founded in 1640 by Queen Christina of Sweden ( 1626 – 1689 ) in Turku, as the Royal Academy of Turku (), the senior part of the school formed the core of the new university, while the junior year courses formed a grammar school.

On two occasions he was Lord High Admiral for a short period ; he was also Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, while he acted as one of the Lords Justices seven times ; and he was President of the Royal Society in 1689 – 1690.

By the time he entered the Royal Navy in March 1718, aged 13, his father was a well-established admiral at the peak of a uniformly successful career, who since supporting King William III in his successful bid to be crowned King of England in 1689 had seen his stature and fortune grow.

During the reign of King William III and Queen Mary II, the Royal Hospital was still under construction, so they introduced a system for distribution of army pensions in 1689.

In the United Kingdom, the reforms will require amendments to numerous pieces of legislation including the Bill of Rights 1689, the Act of Settlement 1701, the Union with Scotland Act 1707 and the Coronation Oath Act 1688, Princess Sophia's Precedence Act 1711, the Royal Marriages Act 1772, the Union with Ireland Act 1800, the Accession Declaration Act 1910 and the Regency Act 1937.

Chairman of the Royal Council of Finances ( conseil royal des Finances ) in 1685, he became the governor of the Duke of Burgundy ( 1689 ), the duke of Anjou ( future King Philip V of Spain ) ( 1690 ), and the duke of Berry ( 1693 ), thus being in charge of the education of the three grandsons of Louis XIV.

27 June 1689 – 30 July 1700: His Royal Highness Prince William, Duke of Gloucester

The office of Dean was suppressed with the abolition of prelacy in 1689, and the revenues of the Chapel Royal reverted to the Crown.

Sir John Berry ( 1635 – 14 February 1689 or 1690 ) was an English naval officer of the Royal Navy, and was in 1675 the captain of the annual convoy to Newfoundland that took place during the years of the colony's founding.