"REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES." See xii, 180.
A demand made for the surrender of Connecticut's charter; it is hidden in
Charter Oak.
Bradford's printing-press arrives in Pennsylvania. See "ORIGIN AND PROGRESS
OF PRINTING," viii, i.
%1686%. Attempt of James II to restore Romanism in the British domains; a camp established by him at Hounslow Heath. Revival of the Court of High Commission.
League of Augsburg formed by William of Orange, by which the principal continental states unite to resist French encroachments.
A bloody crusade waged by Louis XIV, and Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, against the Waldenses of Piedmont.
Recovery of Buda by the Austrians from the Turks.
Appointment of Sir Edmund Andros as Governor over the consolidated New
England colonies.
%1687%. Refusal of the University of Cambridge to admit Francis, a Benedictine monk, recommended by James II.
Leopold I compels the Hungarian Diet to make the kingdom hereditary in the
Hapsburg family.