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Chronological Table: Petersburg

A. D. 1678 The Habeas Corpus Act passed in England. 1679 The long Parliament of Charles II. dissolved. - The Scots Covenanters defeated at Bothwell Bridge by the Duke of Monmouth, June 22. 1682 Peter the Great Czar of Muscovy. 1683 Execution of Lord Russell, 21st July.

Execution of Algernon Sydney, 7th December.

The siege of Vienna by the Turks, raised by John Sobieski. 1685 James II. King of Great Britain. -- Revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis XIV.

Duke of Monmouth beheaded. 1686 The Newtonian philosophy first published in England. - The League of Augsburg against France. 1687 ‡ Soliman III. Emperor of the Turks. 1688 Revolution in Britain. King James abdicates the throne December 23. 1689 William and Mary King and Queen of Great Britain. -- -- Episcopacy abolished in Scotland by King William.

Battle of Killicrankie. - The King's troops defeated. - The Vicount of Dundee slain, July 16, O. S.

Pope Alexander VIII. 1690 Battle of the Boyne, July 1. 1691 Pope Innocent XII. † Achmet II. Emperor of the Turks. 1692 Battle of La Hogue, May 19. -- -- The massacre of Glencoe in Scotland, January 31, O. S. Battle of Steenkirk.-King William defeated by Luxemberg, July 24. Hanover made the ninth Electorate of the Empire. 1694 Queen Mary of England dies, Dec. 28. 1695 Namur taken by King William, June 25. -- † Mustapha II. Emperor of the Turks. 1697 Peace of Ryswick concluded, September 11. -- Peter the Great gains a signal victory over the Turks, and takes Asoph. Charles XII. King of Sweden. 1699 Peace of Carlovitz concluded, January 26. 1700 -- The Scots attempt a colony at Darien.

Charles XII. begins his first campaign, takes Copenhagen, Philip V. King of Spain.