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Years:
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1693
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1694
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1695
1696
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Decades
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1660s
1670s
1680s
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1690s
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1710s
1720s
Centuries
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16th century
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17th century
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18th century
Events
February 6
- The colony
Quilombo dos Palmares
is destroyed.
July 27
- A
Royal Charter
is granted to the
Bank of England
.
December 22
- The Triennial Bill became law.
December 28
- Queen
Mary II of England
dies; King
William III of England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
is now sole ruler after his co-ruler's death.
Much of the town of
Warwick
,
England
destroyed by fire.
Births
November 21
- François-Marie Arouet de
Voltaire
, French philosopher
December 22
-
Hermann Samuel Reimarus
, German philosopher and writer (b.
1768
)
Ralph Allen
Deaths
November 22
-
John Tillotson
, Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1630
)
December 28
- Queen
Mary II of England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
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