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 15 » Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
May 2 » John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
May 5 » In preparation for the Franco-Dutch War, Louis XIV of France personally inspects his troops at Charleroi in one of the most magnificent displays of military power in the seventeenth century.
August 20 » Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by an angry mob in The Hague.
January 1 » John V is proclaimed King of Portugal and the Algarves in Lisbon.
January 16 » The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
April 25 » A coalition of Britain, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
May 1 » The Act of Union joining England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain takes effect.
October 22 » Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.
November 30 » The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
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