%1683%. A penny-post first established in London, by a private individual. Execution in England of Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney, for participation in the Rye House Plot.
Siege of Vienna by the Turks. See "LAST TURKISH INVASION OF EUROPE," xii, 164.
Attack on the Spanish Netherlands by Louis XIV.
%1684%. Forfeiture of the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company.
Formation of the Holy League by Venice, Poland, Emperor Leopold I, and Pope
Innocent XI against the Turks.
Genoa bombarded by the French. Louis XIV forcibly occupies Luxemburg.
An embassy sent from the King of Siam to France.
Publication by Leibnitz of his invention of the differential calculus. (See
Newton, 1665.)
%1685%. Death of Charles II; his brother, James II, ascends the English throne. Insurrection of Argyle and Monmouth; they are both executed. Jeffries' Bloody Assizes. See "MONMOUTH'S REBELLION," xii, 172.
Pillage of the coast of Peru by the buccaneers.