The duchies of Hanover and Brunswick become an electorate; Ernest Augustus elector.
Battle of La Hogue; the attempted French invasion of England defeated by the victory of the English and Dutch fleets.
Massacre, at Glencoe, of the MacDonalds.
1693. Defeat of the English fleet, off Cape St. Vincent, by Tourville, admiral of the French fleet.
Distress in France from famine and the expense of the war with England.
Founding of the College of William and Mary, Virginia.
Bradford's printing-press removed from Pennsylvania to New York. See
"ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING," viii, i.
1694. Attacks on the coast of France by the English.
Death of Queen Mary, consort of William. Cessation of the censorship of the press in England.
"ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND." See xii, 286.