March 20 » The Dutch East India Company is established.
November 8 » The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
December 11 » A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (Commemorated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade.
February 12 » The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
April 18 » Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
July 27 » Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie is a victory for the Jacobites.
August 5 » Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New France.
August 21 » The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
October 26 » General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera; he died of the disease himself soon after.
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