1692 37 cities, towns, and large villages, and about 130,000 people destroyed in the kingdom of Naples, by an earthquake, February 11. The massacre of Glencoe, in Scotland.
1692 James’s descent on England frustrated; the destruction of the French fleet, May 19.
1693 The English fleet defeated by Tourville.
1694 Queen Mary died of the small-pox. The bank of England incorporated.
1694–5 Discipline of the Church restored. Commissioners appointed to direct the building and endowment of Greenwich hospital.
1695 Duties imposed on births, marriages, burials, bachelors, and widowers.
1695–6 Guineas went at the rate of thirty shillings. Six-pence per month deducted out of every seaman’s wages, for the support of Greenwich hospital.
1696 Czar of Muscovy, Peter the Great, came into England, and remained incognito. The window tax first levied.
1700 The New-Style introduced by the Dutch and Protestants in Germany.
1700–1 Earl John, of Marlborough, appointed General of the foot, June 1, and Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty’s forces in Holland. King James II died of a lethargy at St. Germain’s in France, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, September 6.