* 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 – 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 )

By threatening to withdraw his troops, William in February 1689 convinced a newly chosen Convention Parliament to make him and his wife joint monarchs.

* 1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.

It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689 ( or 1688 by Old Style dating ), inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England.

In 1689, a Convention Parliament assembled in England and declared that James had effectively abdicated when he fled, and that the thrones of England and Ireland were therefore vacant.

He sat in the Convention Parliament of 1689.

Blackstone points out that the 1689 parliament had to assemble without a kings writ, because the throne was vacant, and no legally summoned parliament could ever be assembled again unless a Convention Parliament met to settle the issue of government.

Between 1660 and 1689 the meaning of the word Convention underwent a revision.

The Convention Parliament ( 29 December – 22 January 1689 ) was the first parliament of the ' Glorious Revolution ' of 1688.

In the Convention Parliament summoned by William III in 1689, he sat for Heytesbury.

He presided over the Convention of Edinburgh, summoned at his request, which offered the Scottish crown to William and Mary in March 1689.

However, it may have been used as early as 1689, applied to George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, when he was Speaker of the House of Lords during the Convention Parliament of that year.

After trying to influence the Convention of Estates of Scotland on James's behalf, at some danger to himself, he led his cavalry out of Edinburgh to carry on the struggle in the field, and was killed at the moment of victory in the battle of Killiecrankie ( 1689 ).

Lord Willoughby entered Parliament as Member of Parliament for Boston in 1685, and sat in the Loyal Parliament ( 1685 – 1687 ) and the Convention Parliament ( 1689 – 1690 ).

Scotland was slow to accept William, who summoned a Convention of the Estates which met on 14 March 1689 in Edinburgh.

Whilst the Convention Parliament in England declared that James, as King of England, had abdicated the Government, and issued an English Bill of Rights on 13 February 1689 offering the Crown of England to William and Mary, the Scots found themselves facing a more difficult constitutional problem.

Therefore, a Convention of the Scottish Estates met to consider letters received on 16 March 1689 from the two contenders for the Crown.

The Convention proceeded to offer the crown on the basis of these documents to William and Mary, who accepted it on 11 May 1689, and were proclaimed King and Queen of the Scots as William II and Mary II, though with subsequent controversy over whether the Claim of Right articles against Episcopacy were fully accepted by the new monarchy.

After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the English Bill of Rights of 1689 was enacted, which codified certain rights and increased the influence of Parliament.

The expression " Glorious Revolution " was first used by John Hampden in late 1689, and is an expression that is still used by the British Parliament.

There had been three attempts in 1606, 1667, and 1689 to unite the two countries by Acts of Parliament, but it was not until the early 18th century that the idea had the will of both political establishments behind them, albeit for rather different reasons.

* 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants.

Consequently, the English Bill of Rights ( 1689 ) declared, amongst other things: " that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law ..." and " that the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defense suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law.

A meaningful starting point, however, is 1688 – 9 when James II fled England and the Parliament of England confirmed William and Mary as joint constitutional monarchs, enacting legislation that limited their authority and that of their successors: the Bill of Rights ( 1689 ), the Mutiny Bill ( 1689 ), the Triennial Bill ( 1694 ), the Treason Act ( 1696 ) and the Act of Settlement ( 1701 ).

Text of the amendment echoed the English Bill of Rights 1689 which stated the late King James the Second ... did endeavour to subvert and extirpate ... the laws and liberties of this kingdom ... by raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace without consent of Parliament, and quartering soldiers contrary to law.

It is almost identical to a provision in the English Bill of Rights of 1689, in which Parliament declared, " as their ancestors in like cases have usually done ... that excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted .”

England ’ s declaration against " cruel and unusual punishments " was approved by Parliament in February 1689, and was read to King William III and his wife Queen Mary II on the following day.

Members of Parliament then explained in August 1689 that “ the Commons had a particular regard … when that Declaration was first made ” to punishments like the one that had been inflicted by the King's Bench against Titus Oates.

Parliament then enacted the English Bill of Rights into law in December 1689.

* Bill of Rights 1689, an Act of the Parliament of England made following the Glorious Revolution ; considered one of the fundamental parts of the Constitution of the United Kingdom

* The Claim of Right Act 1689, an Act of the Parliament of Scotland that enacted the same principles as the Bill of Rights in England into Scottish law

The Bill of Rights or the Bill of Rights 1688 is an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689.

* Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689

* The Bill of Rights ( 1689 ; England ) declared that Englishmen, as embodied by Parliament, possess certain civil and political rights ; the Claim of Right ( 1689 ; Scotland ) was similar but distinct.

Additionally, he was sufficiently active in public affairs to be returned as Member of Parliament for Old Windsor in 1680, 1689 and 1690, but did not take his seat.