1689

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Events

Notable events during this year include:

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  • October 6 – The papal conclave in Rome unanimously elects Pietro Vito Ottoboni as the new Pope. Ottoboni takes the name Alexander VIII and succeeds Pope Innocent XI, to become the 241st pope, the first Venetian to hold the office in over 200 years.
  • October 26Skopje fire of 1689 occurs, lasting for two days and burning much of the city.
  • November 11 – The Siege of Larache in Morocco ends when the Spanish troops surrender to Mawlay Ismail and the Moroccan forces.
  • November 22Peter the Great decrees the construction of the Great Siberian Road to China.
  • December 10 – A great comet is visible from Pekin and sightings continue until December 24th, including many from Dutch ships near the equator.{{cite journal|author=Vogel|title=On the Comet of 1689|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|date=June 11, 1852|doi=10.1093/mnras/12.8.206|volume=12|issue=8|pages=206–208|issn=0035-8711|doi-access=free}}
  • December 16 – The Bill of Rights (An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown), drawn up by the Convention Parliament of England to establish constitutional monarchy in England, but with Roman Catholics barred from the throne, receives royal assent; it will remain substantially in force into the 21st century.
  • December 22 – A serious earthquake strikes Innsbruck, Austria.{{cite journal|journal=Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica|volume=50|issue=1|pages=39–62|first=Christa|last=Hammerl|year=2015|title=The four strongest earthquakes in Tyrol/ Austria during XVIth and XVIIth centuries: from archival sources to macroseismic intensities|doi=10.1007/s40328-014-0083-3 |bibcode=2015AcGG...50...39H |s2cid=130499470 |url=https://www.emidius.eu/AHEAD/study/HAMM015}}

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  • Peter the Great plots to overthrow his half-sister Sophia as regent of Russia.
  • Supporters of William of Orange seize Liverpool Castle in the north west of England.{{cite web|title=Liverpool Castle|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/mrlhp/local/castle/castle.htm|work=Mike Royden's Local History Pages|access-date=July 16, 2012|archive-date=July 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719011814/http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/mrlhp/local/castle/castle.htm }}
  • The English East India Company expands its influence, and a Committee of the House of Commons is formed to deal with the concerns of the Company.{{Cite journal|last=Bohun|first=James|date=February 19, 2008|title=Protecting Prerogative: William III and the East India Trade Debate, 1689-1698|url=https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pi/index.php/pi/article/view/1363|journal=Past Imperfect|volume=2|pages=66|doi=10.21971/P74S3M|issn=1718-4487|doi-access=free|access-date=October 27, 2022}}
  • Valvasor's The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola is printed in Nuremberg.
  • The first documented performance of the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell takes place at Josias Priest's girls' school in Chelsea, London, with a libretto based on Virgil's Aeneid.{{cite web|url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/henry-purcells-dido-aeneas-summary-myth-analysis.html|title=Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell – Myth, Summary & Analysis|website=Study.com|access-date=2022-10-27}}
  • Boston suffers a smallpox epidemic.{{cite book|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N27531.0001.001/1:11?rgn=div1;view=fulltext|title=A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases; with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated |first=Noah|last= Webster|volume=I |date=September 2008 |access-date=October 27, 2022}}

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