Chapter 1

_An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_ CHARLES F. HORNE

_Louis XIV Establishes Absolute Monarchy (A.D. 1661)_ JAMES COTTER MORISON

_New York Taken by the English (A.D. 1664)_ JOHN R. BRODHEAD

_Great Plague in London (A.D. 1665)_ DANIEL DEFOE

_Great Fire in London (A.D. 1666)_ JOHN EVELYN

_Discovery of Gravitation (A.D. 1666)_ SIR DAVID BREWSTER

_Morgan, the Buccaneer, Sacks Panama (A.D. 1671)_ JOHANN W. VON ARCHENHOLZ

_Struggle of the Dutch against France and England (A.D. 1672)_ C.M. DAVIES.

_Discovery of the Mississippi La Salle Names Louisiana (A.D. 1673-1682)_ FRANCOIS XAVIER GARNEAU

_King Philip's War (A.D. 1675)_ RICHARD HILDRETH

_Growth of Prussia under the Great Elector His Victory at Fehrbellin (A.D. 1675)_ THOMAS CARLYLE

_William Penn Receives the Grant of Pennsylvania Founding of Philadelphia (A.D. 1681)_ GEORGE E. ELLIS

_Last Turkish Invasion of Europe Sobieski Saves Vienna (A.D. 1683)_ SUTHERLAND MENZIES

_Monmouth's Rebellion (A.D. 1685)_ GILBERT BURNET

_Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (A.D. 1685)_ BON LOUIS HENRI MARTIN

_The English Revolution Flight of James II (A.D. 1688)_ GILBERT BURNET H.D. TRAILL

_Peter the Great Modernizes Russia Suppression of the Streltsi (A.D. 1689)_ ALFRED RAMBAUD

_Tyranny of Andros in New England The Bloodless Revolution (A.D. 1689)_ CHARLES WYLLYS ELLIOTT

_Massacre of Lachine (A.D. 1689)_ FRANCOIS XAVIER GARNEAU

_Siege of Londonderry and Battle of the Boyne (A.D. 1689-1690)_ TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT

_Salem Witchcraft Trials (A.D. 1692)_ RICHARD HILDRETH

_Establishment of the Bank of England (A.D. 1694)_ JOHN FRANCIS

_Colonization of Louisiana (A.D. 1699)_ CHARLES E.T. GAYARRE

_Prussia Proclaimed a Kingdom (A.D. 1701)_ LEOPOLD VON RANKE

_Founding of St. Petersburg (A.D. 1703)_ K. WALISZEWSKI

_Battle of Blenheim (A.D. 1704) Curbing of Louis XIV_, SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY

_Union of England and Scotland (A.D. 1707)_ JOHN HILL BURTON

_Downfall of Charles XII at Poltava (A.D. 1709) Triumph of Russia_ K. WALISZEWSKI

_Capture of Port Royal (A.D. 1710) France Surrenders Nova Scotia to England_ DUNCAN CAMPBELL

_Universal Chronology (A.D. 1661-1715)_ JOHN RUDD

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