Battle of Mohacs; defeat of the Turks by the Duke of Lorraine.
Capture of Athens by the Venetians.
Appointment of Tyrconnel, a Roman Catholic, as Lord Deputy of Ireland.
Publication of Newton's Principia.
Assumption of power by Peter the Great, in Russia.
1688. Louis XIV declares war against Holland: he makes war on Germany.
Capture of Philippsburg by the French.
Battle of Enniskillen in Ireland.
Landing in England of William of Orange, on invitation of the malcontents in that country. See "THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION," xii, 200.
New York and New Jersey united with New England under Governor-General Sir
Edmund Andros.