Editing 1689 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 22]] (January 12, 1688 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) &ndash; [[Glorious Revolution]] in [[Kingdom of England|England]]: The [[Convention Parliament (1689)|Convention Parliament]] is convened to determine if King [[James II of England]], the last [[Catholic Church|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]].<ref name=Kenyon>{{cite book|first=J. P.|last=Kenyon|title=Stuart England|location=Harmondsworth|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1978|isbn=0-14-022076-3}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] &ndash; The first performance of the opera ''[[Henrico Leone]]'' composed by [[Agostino Steffani]] takes place in [[Hannover]] to inaugurate the new royal theatre in the [[Leineschloss]].
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[John Locke]] returned to London from exile in Holland.<ref> Oxford DNB https://www-oxforddnb-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-16885?rskey=mOcb4B&result=4</ref>
* [[February 23]] (February 13, 1688 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) &ndash; [[William III of England|William III]] and [[Mary II of England|Mary II]] are proclaimed co-rulers of [[Kingdom of England|England]], [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]].<ref name=Kenyon />
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Nine Years' War]]: As French forces leave, they set fire to [[Heidelberg Castle]], and the nearby town of [[Heidelberg]].
* [[March 22]] (March 12 O.S.) &ndash; Start of the [[Williamite War in Ireland]]: The deposed [[James II of England]] lands with 6,000 [[Early modern France|French]] soldiers in Ireland, where there is a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] majority, hoping to use it as the base for a counter-coup.<ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=John|title=James II|edition=3rd|location=New Haven|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2000|series=Yale English monarchs|isbn=0-300-08728-4|pages=222–227}}</ref> However, many Irish Catholics see him as an agent of [[Louis XIV of France]], and refuse to support him.
* [[March 27]] &ndash; Japanese [[haiku]] master [[Matsuo Bashō|Bashō]] sets out on his last great voyage, which will result in the  prose and verse classic ''[[Oku no Hosomichi]]'' ("Narrow Road to the Interior").