1689

Summary

1689 (MDCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1689th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 689th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1680s decade. As of the start of 1689, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
April 11: William III and Mary II are crowned in London as the joint rulers of England and Scotland.
1689 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1689
MDCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita2442
Armenian calendar1138
ԹՎ ՌՃԼԸ
Assyrian calendar6439
Balinese saka calendar1610–1611
Bengali calendar1096
Berber calendar2639
English Regnal yearWill. & Mar. – 2 Will. & Mar.
Buddhist calendar2233
Burmese calendar1051
Byzantine calendar7197–7198
Chinese calendar戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
4386 or 4179
    — to —
己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4387 or 4180
Coptic calendar1405–1406
Discordian calendar2855
Ethiopian calendar1681–1682
Hebrew calendar5449–5450
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1745–1746
 - Shaka Samvat1610–1611
 - Kali Yuga4789–4790
Holocene calendar11689
Igbo calendar689–690
Iranian calendar1067–1068
Islamic calendar1100–1101
Japanese calendarGenroku 2
(元禄2年)
Javanese calendar1612–1613
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar4022
Minguo calendar223 before ROC
民前223年
Nanakshahi calendar221
Thai solar calendar2231–2232
Tibetan calendar阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1815 or 1434 or 662
    — to —
阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
1816 or 1435 or 663
March 2: Heidelberg Castle is burned.

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Montesquieu born 18 January
 
Pierre-Joseph Alary born 19 March
 
Richard Ward (governor) born 15 April
 
Marie Anne de Bourbon born 18 April
 
Antoine Louis Rouillé born 7 June
 
Mary Montagu, Duchess of Montagu born 15 July
 
Szymon Czechowicz born 22 July
 
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester born 24 July
 
Henric Benzelius born 7 August
 
Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer born 1 September
 
Anna Sophie Schack born 4 September
 
Catharina Backer born 22 September
 
Nijō Yoshitada born 26 September
 
Frans van Mieris the Younger born 24 December

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Deaths edit

 
Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury) died 6 January
 
Marie Louise d'Orléans died 12 February
 
Sambhaji died 11 March
 
Kazimierz Łyszczyński died 30 March
 
Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria died 4 April
 
Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna died 14 April
 
Aphra Behn died 16 April
 
Christina, Queen of Sweden died 19 April
 
Conyers Darcy, 1st Earl of Holderness died 14 June
 
Song Si-yeol died 19 July
 
Pope Innocent XI died 12 August
 
John Lake (bishop) died 30 August
 
Jane Lane, Lady Fisher died 9 September
 
George Ent died 13 October
 
Stephan Farffler died 24 October
 
Thomas Sydenham died 29 December

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