* 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 )

Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

# Constitutional entrenchment of an otherwise statutory English, British, or Canadian document because of subject matter provisions in the amending formula of the Constitution Act, 1982, such as provisions with regard to the monarchy in the English Bill of Rights 1689 or the Act of Settlement 1701.

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 Duke of Marlborough holds certain subsidiary titles: Marquess of Blandford ( created 1702 ), Earl of Sunderland ( 1643 ), Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ), Baron Spencer, of Wormleighton ( 1603 ), and Baron Churchill, of Sandridge ( 1685 ) ( all are in the English peerage ).

It has been argued that James's overthrow began modern English parliamentary democracy: the Bill of Rights of 1689 has become one of the most important documents in the political history of Britain and never since has the monarch held absolute power.

The English quickly built other posts around the southern edge of Hudson Bay in Manitoba and present day Ontario and Quebec, such as at Fort Severn, built in 1689.

In December 1689, one of the most important constitutional documents in English history, the Bill of Rights, was passed.

But the English government opposed the idea: involved in the War of the Grand Alliance from 1689 to 1697 against France, it did not want to offend Spain, which claimed the territory as part of New Granada.

The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689.

With his Black Guard he drove the English from Tangier ( 1684 ) and the Spanish from Larache ( 1689 ).

With these soldiers he drove the English from Tangiers ( 1684 ) and the Spanish from Larache ( 1689.

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.

In 1684 England revoked the Massachusetts charter, sent over a royal governor to enforce English laws in 1686, and in 1689 passed a broad Toleration act.

In 1689, during the War of the Grand Alliance, France re-occupied the entire island, and decimated the English farms.

* 1624 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician ( d. 1689 )

The right to petition was an echo of the English Bill of Rights 1689 which stated " t is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal ".

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.

The text of the English Bill of Rights of 1689 includes language protecting the right of Protestants against disarmament by the Crown.

Pertinent part of the English Bill of Rights, December 1689. The American Bill of Rights in the National Archives and Records Administration | National Archives, March 1789