1689 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1689.Events
Prose
- Richard Cox – Hibernia Anglicana
- George Hickes – Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae
- John Locke
- *Two Treatises of Government
- *A Letter Concerning Toleration
- *An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- John Selden – Table Talk
- Johann Weikhard von Valvasor – The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola
Drama
- Aphra Behn – The Widow Ranter
- John Crowne – The English Friar, or the Town Sparks
- Sor Juana – Amor es más labertino
- Nathaniel Lee – The Massacre of Paris
- Thomas Shadwell - Bury Fair
Births
- January 18 – Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist
- May 26 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, poet and letter-writer
- July 9 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist
- August 19 – Samuel Richardson, English novelist
Deaths
- January – William Chamberlayne, English poet and playwright
- February 21 – Isaac Vossius, Dutch-born collector of manuscripts
- April 16 – Aphra Behn, English dramatist, poet and novelist
- August 21 – William Cleland, Scottish soldier and poet
- November 13 – Philipp von Zesen, German poet and hymn-writer
- December 13 – Zbigniew Morsztyn, Polish poet
- Unknown date – Pjetër Bogdani, Albanian-language author
