1689

January–June

• January 11 - Glorious Revolution in England: The Convention Parliament is convened to determine if King James II of England, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, vacated the throne when he fled to France, at the end of 1688. The settlement of this is agreed on 8 February.
• February 13 - William III and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• March 2 - Nine Years' War: As French forces leave, they set fire to Heidelberg Castle, and the nearby town of Heidelberg.
• March 22 - Start of the Williamite War in Ireland: The deposed James II of England lands with 6,000 French soldiers in Ireland, where there is a Catholic majority, hoping to use it as the base for a counter-coup. However, many Irish Catholics see him as an agent of Louis XIV of France, and refuse to support him.
• March 27 - Japanese haiku master Bashō sets out on his last great voyage, which will result in the prose and verse classic Oku no Hosomichi.
• April 11 - William III and Mary II are crowned in London as King and Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland. Ireland does not recognise them yet, while the Estates of Scotland declare King James VII of Scotland deposed.
• April 18
• * Boston revolt: Unpopular New England Governor Sir Edmund Andros and other officials are overthrown by a "mob" of Bostonians. Andros, an appointee of James II of England, is disliked for his support of the Church of England, and revocation of various colonial charters.
• * Williamite War in Ireland: Siege of Derry: James II arrives at the gates of Derry and asks for its surrender, which is refused by the Protestant defenders.
• May 11 - Williamite War in Ireland - Battle of Bantry Bay: The French fleet under the Marquis de Châteaurenault is able to protect its transports, unloading supplies for James II, from the English Royal Navy under the Earl of Torrington, and withdraws unpursued.
• May 12 - Nine Years' War: With England and the Netherlands now both ruled by William III, they join the Grand Alliance, thus escalating the conflict, which continues until 1697. This is also the effective beginning of King William's War, the first of four North American Wars between English and French colonists, both sides allied to Native American tribes. The nature of the fighting is a series of raids on each other's settlements, across the Canadian and New England borders.
• May 24 - The Bill of Rights establishes constitutional monarchy in England, but with Roman Catholics barred from the throne. Parliament also passes the Act of Toleration, protecting Protestants but with Roman Catholics intentionally excluded. This effectively concludes the Glorious Revolution.
• May 25 - The last hearth tax is collected in England and Wales.
• May 31 - Leisler's Rebellion: Calvinist Jacob Leisler deposes lieutenant governor Francis Nicholson and assumes control of the Province of New York.

  July–December

• July 25 - The Council of Wales and the Marches is abolished.
• July 27 - First Jacobite rising: Battle of Killiecrankie near Pitlochry in Perthshire - Scottish Covenanter supporters of William III and Mary II are defeated by Jacobite supporters of James II, but the latter's leader, John Graham, Viscount Dundee, is killed. Hand grenades are used in action.
• July 28 - English sailors break through a floating boom across the River Foyle, to end the Siege of Derry after 105 days.
• August 2 - Boston Revolt: Edmund Andros, former governor of the Dominion of New England, escapes from Boston to Connecticut, but is recaptured.
• August 5 - Beaver Wars: Lachine massacre - A force of 1,500 Iroquois largely destroys the village of Lachine, New France.
• August 12 - Innocent XI, Pope since 1676, dies. He played a major part in founding both the League of Augsburg, against Louis XIV, and the Holy League, against the Ottoman Empire.
• August 20 - A large Williamite force under Marshal Schomberg begins the Siege of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland, which surrenders on August 27.
• August 21 - First Jacobite rising: Battle of Dunkeld - Covenanters defeat the Jacobites in Scotland.
• August 27 - China and Russia sign the Treaty of Nerchinsk.
• October 6 - Pope Alexander VIII succeeds Pope Innocent XI, to become the 241st pope, the first Venetian to hold the office in over 200 years.
• November 22 - Peter the Great decrees the construction of the Great Siberian Road to China.
• December 16 - Convention Parliament - The English Bill of Rights is officially declared in force.

  Date unknown

• Peter the Great plots to overthrow his half-sister Sophia, as regent of Russia.
• Supporters of William of Orange seize Liverpool Castle.
• The English East India Company expands its influence, with the establishment of administrative districts called presidencies in the Indian provinces of Bengal, Madras and Bombay, the effective beginning of the company's long rule in India.
• Valvasor's The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola is printed in Nuremberg.