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List of events
Events from the year 1689 in England
Incumbents
Events
12 January – a powerful storm causes significant damage in London and southeast England.[ 1]
22 January – the Convention Parliament is convened to determine if James II , the last Roman Catholic king , had vacated the throne when he fled to France at the end of 1688 .[ 2]
6 February – the Convention Parliament reads the Declaration of Right to William of Orange and his wife, Mary (daughter of the exiled James II) in formally offering them the throne.
13 February – William III and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland[ 2] Guildhall in the City of London [ 3] [ 4]
12 March – start of the Williamite War in Ireland : James II lands at Kinsale with 6,000 French soldiers and marches for Dublin .[ 5]
April – great fire at St Ives, Huntingdonshire ; also this year there is a major fire in Morpeth, Northumberland .
11 April – crowning of William and Mary as King and Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by the Bishop of London , Henry Compton .[ 4]
18 April
1 May (11 May N.S. ) – Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of Bantry Bay between the English Royal Navy under the Earl of Torrington and the French fleet under the Marquis de Châteaurenault . The French are able to protect their transports unloading supplies for James II and withdraw unpursued.[ 7]
12 May – King William's War : William joins the Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg) , starting the war (the North American theatre of the Nine Years' War ).
24 May – the Toleration Act passed by Parliament protecting freedom of worship for Protestant Nonconformists (Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded). This effectively concludes the Glorious Revolution .
25 May – last collection of hearth tax ; it is replaced by a poll tax .
25 July
27 July – first Jacobite rising : Scottish Covenanter supporters of William and Mary (under Hugh Mackay ) are defeated by Jacobite supporters of James at the Battle of Killiecrankie but the latter's leader, John Graham, Viscount Dundee , is killed.
28 July – relief of the Siege of Derry after 105 days: English sailors break through a floating boom across the River Foyle to end the Siege.[ 9]
1 August – nonjuring schism in the Church of England: Archbishop of Canterbury William Sancroft , along with eight bishops and around 400 other clergymen, is suspended for refusing to swear allegiance to William and Mary. He is dismissed from office the following year.[ 10]
21 August – first Jacobite rising: Battle of Dunkeld : Covenanter Cameronians defeat the Jacobites in Scotland .
27 August – a Williamite force sailing from England takes the Jacobite port of Carrickfergus in County Antrim .
16 December – the Bill of Rights officially comes into force.
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^ A Full and true account of the sad and dreadful storm that happened on Sunday morning, the 12th of January, 1689. {With} a relation how it happened, and continued, and the damage it has done by land and sea, by blowing down houses, chimneys, trees, killing and wounding divers people, carrying away hay-reeks, corn-reeks, \&c. in damaging churches, casting away ships, boats, lighters, \&c. with other prodigious and fearfull circumstances attending it; the like not known in any age , retrieved October 27, 2022 ^ a b Kenyon, J. P. (1978). Stuart England . Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-022076-6 ^ Claydon, Tony (2004). "William III and II (1650–1702)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/29450 . Retrieved 2012-07-16 . (subscription or UK public library membership required) ^ a b Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9 ^ Miller, John (2000). James II . Yale English monarchs (3rd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 222–227. ISBN 978-0-300-08728-4 ^ "The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant mythology" . Cruithni . 2001-12-31. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2012-07-16 .^ Lynn, John A. (1999). The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714 203 . ISBN 978-0-582-05629-9 ^ Firth, C. H. (2004). "Ludlow, Edmund (1616/17–1692)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/17161 . Retrieved 2012-10-24 . ^ "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events" . Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN) . Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2010-01-28 .^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0 ^ "Liverpool Castle" . Mike Royden's Local History Pages . Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2012-07-16 .^ The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. 1999. ISBN 978-1-85986-000-7 ^ "The Town Hall at Windsor" . The Royal Windsor Web Site . Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2010-09-13 .
