What happened in 1689?
48 recorded events in 1689, including 13 in people, 13 in wars & conflicts and 12 in architecture & engineering.
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Wars & Conflicts 13
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Williamite War in Ireland
1689–91 conflict between supporters of rival claimants to the British throne
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Second Hundred Years' War
Series of military conflicts between Great Britain and France that occurred from 1689 to 1815
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Battle of Killiecrankie
1689 battle of the First Jacobite Rising
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Battle of Walcourt
1689 battle of the Nine Years' War
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Battle of Niš
1689 battle between Austria and the Ottoman Empire
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Siege of Derry
Siege of Derry during the Williamite War in Ireland (1688-1689)
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Battle of Dunkeld
Battle of the Jacobite rising of 1689
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Siege of Bonn
1689 part of the War of the Grand Alliance
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Battle of Batočina
Battle of the Great Turkish War (1689)
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Siege of Larache
1689 siege
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Siege of Pemaquid
1689 action of King William's War
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Battle of Štip
1689 battle
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Battle of Newtownbutler
Battle in County Fermanagh, Ireland in 1689
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Politics & Government 1
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Treaty of Nerchinsk
The first border treaty between Russia and Siberian-Manchu ruled China (1689)
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People 13
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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier died
French writer
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Innocent XI died
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689
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Gerasimus II of Constantinople died
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
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Seth Ward died
Bishop of Salisbury, mathematician and astronomer
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Elias Hesse died
German traveller to South East Asia
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Olfert Dapper died
Dutch physician and writer (1636–1689)
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Stephan Farffler died
German inventor
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Thomas Street died
17th century astronomer
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Gilles-François de Gottignies died
Belgian Jesuit, mathematician and astronomer (1630-1689)
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Nicolas Grollier de Servière died
French inventor and engineer
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John Goad died
English head-master
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Samuel Richardson born
Born in Mackworth. English writer and printer (1689–1761).
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Mary Wortley Montagu born
Born in Holme Pierrepont. Noblewoman; writer and poet from England, editor (1689-1762).
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Religion & Belief Systems 3
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1689 papal conclave
Following the death of Pope Innocent XI
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Lami Mosque
Mosque in Ulcinj, Montenegro
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Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist on the Volga
Temple in Uglich, Russia
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Economy & Trade 2
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Husqvarna Group
Producer of outdoor power products
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Ede & Ravenscroft
Oldest tailors in London
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Social Movements & Revolutions 3
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1689 Boston revolt
April 1689 revolt in Boston
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Karposh's Rebellion
1689 rebellion in the Ottoman Empire
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Protestant Revolution
1689 rebellion in the Province of Maryland
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Architecture & Engineering 12
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Łazienki Palace
Palace in Warszaw, Poland
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Church of St. Anne
Church building in Kraków, Poland
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San Frediano in Cestello
Church
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Reformed Church
Church in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Santa Rita da Cascia alle Vergini Church
Church in Rome
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San Pantaleo, Rome
Religious church building in Rome, burial place of San José de Calasanz, founder of the Piarists
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Gløshaug Church
Church in Trøndelag, Norway
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Sodankylä Old Church
Church building in Sodankylä, Finland, built in 1689
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Bieliński Palace in Otwock Wielki
Palace in Poland, Poland
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Saint-Louis Church, Grenoble
Church located in Isère, in France
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Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford
Church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK
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St Chad's Chapel, Tushingham
Grade I listed church in Tushingham-cum-Grindley, Macefen and Bradley, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
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Sports & Entertainment 1
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Hôtel des Comédiens ordinaires du roi
Former theatre of the Comédie-Française, 1689–1770, mostly destroyed
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