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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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| 1692 |
| | | The Massachusetts town of Salem is gripped by witch-hunting hysteria | |
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| 1692 |
| | | Twenty people convicted of witchcraft are hanged in Salem, and one is pressed to death | |
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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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| 1696 |
| | | Peter the Great makes an unexpected raid down the river Don and captures Azov from the Crimean Tatars | |
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| 1696 |
| | | Fort St William is built by the East India Company in the Ganges delta, and subsequently develops into Calcutta | |
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| 1697 |
| | | In the Treaty of Rijswijk, Spain cedes the western half of Hispaniola to France, which names its new colony Saint-Domingue | |
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| 1698 |
| | | A fleet from Oman evicts the Portuguese from Mombasa and Zanzibar | |
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| 1698 |
| | | Scotland makes a disastrous attempt to establish a colony in Darien, on the isthmus of Panama | |
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| 1698 |
| | | Peter the Great makes a symbolic gesture of reform in trimming his boyars' beards | |
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