January 14 » The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
March 13 » Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
April 14 » Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Years' War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
August 22 » Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
March 8 » Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
March 11 » The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time.
July 19 » Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
November 10 » English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
December 30 » Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
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