1689 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1689?
- January 22, 1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II, the last Roman Catholic king of England, had vacated the throne when he fled to France in 1688.
- February 12, 1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
- February 13, 1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
- March 12, 1689 – The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
- March 16, 1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
- April 11, 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
- April 18, 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
- April 20, 1689 – The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
- May 12, 1689 – King William’s War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
- May 24, 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
- July 27, 1689 – Glorious Revolution: the Battle of Killiecrankie ends.
- August 5, 1689 – 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France.
- August 21, 1689 – The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
- August 27, 1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
- October 26, 1689 – General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
- December 16, 1689 – Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
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