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1682
 
   
William Penn approves the Great Law, allowing complete freedom of religious belief in Pennsylvania      
1682
 
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William Penn achieves peace for Pennsylvania by negotiating a treaty with the local Lenape (or Delaware) tribes       
1683
 
    
Mennonites and other from Germany (later known as the Pennsylvania Dutch) begin to settle in Penn's liberal colony       
c. 1690
 
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France by now has six fortified trading settlements around the coast of India, of which Pondicherry is the most important      
1690
 
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John Strong, landing on some remote Atlantic islands, names them after Viscount Falkland, treasurer of the British navy      
1696
 
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Peter the Great makes an unexpected raid down the river Don and captures Azov from the Crimean Tatars        
1696
 
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Fort St William is built by the East India Company in the Ganges delta, and subsequently develops into Calcutta       
1697
 
   
In the Treaty of Rijswijk, Spain cedes the western half of Hispaniola to France, which names its new colony Saint-Domingue      
1698
 
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A fleet from Oman evicts the Portuguese from Mombasa and Zanzibar     
1698
 
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Scotland makes a disastrous attempt to establish a colony in Darien, on the isthmus of Panama