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1689

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.

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1689 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1689
MDCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita2442
Armenian calendar1138
ԹՎ ՌՃԼԸ
Assyrian calendar6439
Balinese saka calendar1610–1611
Bengali calendar1095–1096
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 calendarས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Earth-Dragon)
1815 or 1434 or 662
    — to —
ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Earth-Snake)
1816 or 1435 or 663
March 2: Heidelberg Castle is burned. source ↗

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.

Events

Notable events during this year include:

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Births

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

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

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

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

References

References

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