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| 1682 |
| | | Robert de la Salle travels down the Mississippi to its mouth and claims the entire region for France, naming it Louisiana | |
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| 1682 |
| | | William Penn approves the Great Law, allowing complete freedom of religious belief in Pennsylvania | |
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| 1682 |
| | | William Penn achieves peace for Pennsylvania by negotiating a treaty with the local Lenape (or Delaware) tribes | |
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| 1683 |
| | | Mennonites and other from Germany (later known as the Pennsylvania Dutch) begin to settle in Penn's liberal colony | |
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| 1690 |
| | | John Strong, landing on some remote Atlantic islands, names them after Viscount Falkland, treasurer of the British navy | |
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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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| 1693 |
| | | Gold is found in Brazil, launching the first great American gold rush | |
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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 |
| | | Scotland makes a disastrous attempt to establish a colony in Darien, on the isthmus of Panama | |
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