Peter the Great of Russia employs Brant, a Dutch shipwright, to build a vessel at Archangel.
1695. Peace arranged between France and Savoy.
Azov captured from the Turks by Peter the Great.
1696. On the death of John Sobieski the Polish crown is purchased by Frederick Augustus, Elector of Saxony.
1697. Barcelona captured by the French.
Peace of Ryswick between France, Holland, England, and Spain.
Election of Francis I as King of Poland.
Battle of Zenta; crushing defeat of the Turks by Leopold I.
1698. Foundation of Calcutta by the English.
A Scotch colony established on the Isthmus of Darien: abandoned in 1700.