By 1689 the town had grown significantly.

He and his troops did not stay for long, however, as the town was quickly engulfed by the plague, which ultimately killed Piccolomini himself in December 1689.

The town was occupied by Jacobite supporters on three occasions ( 1689, 1715 and 1745 ).

The town was burnt in 1543, 1602, and 1689.

A building meant to serve as the town hall, built in the mid 14th century, was used by the Reichskammergericht as their seat and offices from 1689 to 1806, after many remodellings.

But the blackest day in Ahrweiler's history was on May 1, 1689, when the town was razed to the ground, and only ten houses were left standing among the ruins.

On August 4, 1689, Lachine, a small town adjacent to Montreal, was burned to the ground.

Much of the medieval town was destroyed by a fire in 1689 / 90 that destroyed 117 houses in the town as well as the church and Market House, another in 1710 and a ' like calamity ' in 1736.

In 1689 Łupawa was chartered as a town.

On 17 September 1689, French troops overwhelmed the town, leaving almost all of it in rubble.

On 31 May 1689, Landskrone Castle and the town were utterly destroyed by the French under General Mélac.

In 1610, the town passed to the Spanish, who stayed there until 1689, but who mainly used the ports as trading stops and never really administered the town.

When the poet Matsuo Bashō saw the state of the town in 1689 he penned a famous haiku about the impermanence of human glory:

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.

In 1689, the town was almost utterly destroyed when French troops in the Nine Years ' War ( known in Germany as the Pfälzischer Erbfolgekrieg, or War of the Palatine Succession ) carried out a scorched-earth campaign in the Electorate of the Palatinate.

The town was ceded to Qing Empire after the treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689.

Following the turbulent events ( notably, the Karposh Uprising in 1689 ) the city experienced a period of stagnation, and by the end of 18th century Kumanovo epitomized an Ottoman provincial town.

In 1689 the town was burnt to the ground by French troops in the War of the Grand Alliance.

On August 4, 1689, Lachine, a small town adjacent to Montreal, was burned to the ground.

Now the French took the opportunity to finish off the work started in 1689, after their hurried exit from the town.

In 1689 Sir Richard Newdigate, one of the new, local Newdigate Baronets, approaches manufacturers in the town with the notion of supplying the British Government with small arms.

In 1688 the town created a council for legislative reforms, followed in 1689 by one for weights and measures and in 1699, one for the care of orphans.

In March 1689, the castle was blockaded by 7, 000 troops, against a garrison of 160 men, who were further weakened by religious disputes.

James II of England spent most of the winter months from November 1689 until January 1690 at Kilkenny, residing in the castle.

Nevertheless, the decaying castle withstood several days of siege by the forces of William of Orange in 1689, before surrendering on 28 August.

The guineas of this reign weighed 8. 5 grams, were 25 – 26 mm in diameter, and were the work of James and Norbert Roettier and were produced in all years between 1689 and 1694 both with and without the elephant and castle ; in 1692 and 1693 the mark of the elephant alone was also used.

Half guineas were produced in all years between 1689 and 1694 with the elephant and castle appearing in 1691 and 1692.

A series of archaeological excavations between 1925 and 1927 revealed many previously hidden foundations of medieval buildings at the castle site, making it possible to reconstruct what was there before the castle was destroyed in 1689.

The second castle built at Ruthven was fought over during the Civil Wars of the 17th century and was badly damaged by John Graham, 1st Viscount of Dundee and the Jacobites in the rising of 1689.

The castle was garrisoned by government troops during the Jacobite Rising of Bonnie Dundee in 1689, when repairs were ordered, and again during the rising of 1715.

* September 16, 1689 ( Genroku 2, 3rd day of the 7th month ): The Great Genroku Earthquake shook Edo and parts of the shogun's castle collapsed.

The 1st Earl rebuilt his park according to a design by Capability Brown in 1774 – 1777, relocating the village in the process – the remains of the church of 1689 are at the south-west corner of the castle.

As the French withdrew from the castle on 2 March 1689, they set fire to it and blew the front off the Fat Tower.

Near the town is the castle of Lahneck, built about 1290, destroyed by the French in 1689, and restored in 1854.

Built in the 1630s, the castle, which is now nothing more than a shell, was laid siege to during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, captured by Cromwell's troops in 1650 and was damaged by supporters of King James II in 1689.

On 28 July 1689, McCarthy's force encamped near Enniskillen and bombarded the Williamite outpost of Crom castle to the south east of Enniskillen.

In 1689, King Louis XIV's troops first burnt the Winneburg ( castle ) down and then conquered the town of Cochem with its castle.

Though the Quakers lost influence after the Glorious Revolution, which deposed James II, the Act of Toleration 1689 put an end to the uniformity laws under which Quakers had been persecuted, permitting them to assemble freely.

An initial Jacobite rising under John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee ( Bonnie Dundee ) defeated William's forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689, but Dundee was slain in the fighting, and the army was soon defeated at the Battle of Dunkeld.

* Since the establishment of its presidencies in 1689, the British East India Company has been under constant pressure from traders who are not members of the company and are not licensed by the Crown to trade.

Except for the punishment of desertion, which was made a felony by statute in the reign of Henry VI, these ordinances or Articles of War remained almost the sole authority for the enforcement of discipline until 1689, when the first Mutiny Act was passed and the military forces of the crown were brought under the direct control of parliament.

Thus the history of English military law up to 1879 may be divided into three periods, each having a distinct constitutional aspect: ( I ) prior to 1689, the army, being regarded as so many personal retainers of the sovereign rather than servants of the state, was mainly governed by the will of the sovereign ; ( 2 ) between 1689 and 1803, the army, being recognized as a permanent force, was governed within the realm by statute and without it by the prerogative of the crown and ( 3 ) from 1803 to 1879, it was governed either directly by statute or by the sovereign under an authority derived from and defined and limited by statute.

Mary and William were crowned king and queen of England in 1689, and because Dryden was deeply sympathetic to James he lost his public offices and fell into political disfavor under the new reign.

He was the son of William Adam ( 1689 – 1748 ), the country's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him.

Alarmed at reported French activities in Texas, the Viceroy of Spain in 1689 dispatched a Spanish expedition under Captain Alonzo de Leon, with one hundred men who penetrated the Trinity River region of Texas in the vicinity of present Liberty.

) This is an allusion to the wars fought under King William III and Queen Anne against France under Louis XIV, the War of the Grand Alliance ( 1689 – 1697 ) and the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1713 ).

The Jacobite Risings between 1689 and 1746 found their most effective support amongst the Scottish clans, and this Act was part of a series of measures attempting to bring the warrior clans under government control.

During King William's War ( 1689 – 1697 ), the next most serious threat to Quebec in the 17th century came in 1690 when, alarmed by the attacks of the petite guerre, the New England colonies sent an armed expedition north, under Sir William Phips, to capture Quebec itself.

This recommended Robert Harley to the notice of the Boscawen family, and led to his election, in April 1689, as the parliamentary representative of Tregony, a borough under their control, whilst at the same time acting as High Sheriff of Herefordshire.

On the breaking out of revolution in Moscow in 1689, Gordon with the troops under his command virtually decided events in favour of Tsar Peter I, and against the Regent, tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna.

** attempting to hinder the succession to the throne under the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Act of Settlement 1701

The Welsh Marches would be merged with the principality in 1534 under the Council of Wales and the Marches until all separate governance for Wales as an administrative entity was abolished in 1689.

He was a fairly prominent man under Charles II and James II, and in 1689 he ranged himself on the side of William of Orange.

The Dominion collapsed in 1689, and the New Hampshire communities again came under Massachusetts rule until a provincial charter was issued in 1691 by William and Mary.

The Manchus with 3, 000 to 15, 000 soldiers under Songgotu left Peking June 1689 and arrived in July.

His first recorded commission was to the post of third lieutenant of HMS Elizabeth on 1 June 1689, under the command of Captain David Mitchell.

He is principally known from his elaborate legal digest, in three volumes, under the title of Lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel ( 1689 ), an undertaking for which Louis XIV settled on him a pension of 2000 livres.

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 short, many in those colonies believed that as they were not directly represented in the distant British Parliament, any laws it passed taxing the colonists ( such as the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act ) were illegal under the Bill of Rights 1689, and were a denial of their rights as Englishmen.