Separate chronologies or the various nations, and of the careers of famous persons, will be found in the INDEX VOLUME, with volume and page references showing where the several events are fully treated.
A.D.
%1661%. Execution of the Marquis of Argyle. Burning of the League and Covenant by the hangman, in all parts of England.
Episcopacy restored in Scotland.
In France Louis XIV assumes personal rule; Colbert begins his ministry. See
"Louis XIV ESTABLISHES ABSOLUTE MONARCHY," xii, i.
%1662%. Sale of Dunkirk to the French by Charles II. Passage of a new Act of Uniformity; ejectment of nonconformist ministers from their livings, in England.
A charter given the Connecticut and New Haven colonies.
%1663%. Hungary overrun by the Turks under Koprili.
Foundation of the French Academy of Inscriptions.
The Carolinas granted by charter to Clarendon and others.