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| 1692 |
| | | Government soldiers, mainly Campbells, massacre their MacDonald hosts in Glencoe | |
|  | Order for the massacre of Glencoe
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| 1694 |
| | | The Bank of England is founded and soon becomes the central banker for England's many private banks | |
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| 1694 |
| | | The joint monarch of England, Mary II, dies - leaving her husband, William III, to reign alone | |
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| c. 1695 |
| | | The first teacher of the virtuoso harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti is his father, Alessandro | |
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| 1696 |
| | | Peter the Great makes an unexpected raid down the river Don and captures Azov from the Crimean Tatars | |
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| 1697 |
| | | The Russian tsar, Peter I, studies western European technology, working as a ship's carpenter in Dutch and English shipyards | |
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| 1697 |
| | | In his opera La Caduta de' Decemviri, Alessandro Scarlatti introduces a new form of prelude, later known as the Italian overture, which is an important stage in the development of the symphony | |
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| 1698 |
| | | Thomas Savery creates the first practical steam engine, designed to pump water out of mines | |
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| 1698 |
| | | A maker of harpsichords in Florence, Bartolomeo Cristofori, develops the piano ('soft') and forte ('loud') feature which leads to the piano | |
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| 1698 |
| | | Peter the Great makes a symbolic gesture of reform in trimming his boyars' beards | |
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