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7 January - The first recorded full peal is rung, at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, marking a new era in change ringing.
March - London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 ("An Act for Reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for Restoreing the City of London to its antient Rights and Privileges") passed by Parliament.^[1]
20 May - The Act of Grace passed, forgiving followers of the deposed James II.
30 June - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Beachy Head: French naval victory over the English and Dutch.^[2]^[3]
1 July (O.S.) - Battle of the Boyne in Ireland: William III defeats James.^[4]^[5]
25 July - War of the Grand Alliance: French raiders burn Teignmouth in Devon.^[3]
24 August - In India, Sutanuti — which later becomes Kolkata — is founded by Job Charnock of the English East India Company.^[5]
December - Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri.
10 December - Playwright Henry Nevil Payne is tortured for his role in the Montgomery Plot to restore James II to the throne, the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke^[5] (dated this year but published in 1689).
Political Arithmetic by William Petty.^[5]

3 February - Richard Rawlinson, minister and antiquarian (died 1755)
12 March - George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (died 1742)
22 April - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman (died 1763)
Baptised 22 April - Robert Raikes the Elder, printer (died 1757)
29 October - Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (died 1754)
1 December - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor (died 1764)
2 December - Robert Shafto, Member of Parliament (died 1729)
date unknown
- Charles Bridgeman, garden designer (died 1738)
- Hester Santlow, dancer and actress (died 1773)

7 February - Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet, royalist statesman (born c.1628)
March - Sir Philip Parker, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born c. 1625)
21 May - John Eliot, Puritan missionary (born 1604)
12 July - George Walker, soldier killed in action at the Battle of the Boyne (born (1645)
9 October - Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, illegitimate son of King Charles II (born 1663)
15 October - Thomas Rogers and Anne Rogers, counterfeiters (both executed)
December - Richard Willis, spy (born 1614)
15 December - Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born c. 1633)
date unknown
- Sir John Child, 1st Baronet, governor of Bombay (year of birth unknown)

↑ Noorthouck, John (1773). "Chapter 17: From the Revolution to the death of William III". A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark. 1. London: R. Baldwin. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
↑ Equivalent to 10 July in the "new style" Gregorian calendar.
1 2 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 197–198. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Equivalent to 11 July in the "new style" Gregorian calendar, although today commemorated on 12 July.
1 2 3 4 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 285. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

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