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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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| 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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| 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 |
| | | 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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| 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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