January 28 » Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
June 10 » Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
August 12 » The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.
August 13 » The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister.
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 11 » William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
May 24 » The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics.
August 27 » The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
October 26 » General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera; he died of the disease himself soon after.
December 16 » Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
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