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| 1689 |
| | | James II, landing in Ireland, is acclaimed as king in Dublin by enthusiastic Irish Catholics | |
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| 1689 |
| | | The Great Fountain Garden at Hampton Court, occupying the semi-circle of land between the East Front and the park, is designed with 13 fountains powered by the Longford River | |
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| 1689 |
| | | A Grand Alliance against France is formed by almost all the other powers in Europe | |
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| 1689 |
| | | The 17-year-old Peter the Great becomes co-tsar of Russia with his half-brother Ivan V | |
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| 1689 |
| | | The Great Fountain Garden at Hampton Court, occupying the semi-circle of land between the East Front and the park, is designed with 13 fountains powered by the Longford River | |
|  | Hampton Court Palace, the Fountain Court, c.1910
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| 1689 |
| | | Young gentlewomen in Chelsea give the first performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas | |
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| c. 1690 |
| | | France by now has six fortified trading settlements around the coast of India, of which Pondicherry is the most important | |
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| 1690 |
| | | The armies of James II and William III confront each at the river Boyne, with victory going to William | |
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| c. 1690 |
| | | Chinoiserie becomes the new craze in Europe, after Jesuit reports of the Chinese civilization | |
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| 1690 |
| | | The French scientist Denis Papin, while professor of mathematics at Marburg, develops the first steam engine to use a piston | |
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