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CHRONOLOGY.

PERIOD VII.--AGE OF SUPERSTITION.

A.D. 1680 TO A.D. 1700.

1680. CHARLESTON, S. C., founded by the removal of the Carteret Colony.

1681. PENNSYLVANIA granted to William Penn by Charles II.,--March 4.

1682. LA SALLE explored the Mississippi to its mouth; named Louisiana.
DELAWARE (the three lower counties) granted to William
Penn,--Aug. 24.
PHILADELPHIA founded by William Penn.

1684. MASSACHUSETTS' CHARTER declared null and void by English
Court,--June 18.

1685. ACCESSION OF JAMES II. to the throne of Great Britain,--Feb. 6.

1686. ARRIVAL OF SIR EDMUND ANDROS, Governor of all New
England,--Dec. 20.

1687. CHARTER OF CONNECTICUT concealed in Charter Oak at
Hartford,--Oct. 31.

1689. ACCESSION OF WILLIAM III. AND MARY II. to the throne of Great
Britain,--Feb. 13.
KING WILLIAM'S WAR, between Great Britain and France,--lasted
eight years.

1690. BURNING OF SCHENECTADY, N. Y., by French and Indians,--Feb. 9.
PORT ROYAL taken by the British under Phipps,--May.

1691. MASSACHUSETTS, Plymouth, Maine, and Nova Scotia united,--Gov.
Phipps, Oct. 7.
LEISLER AND MILBORNE hung,--May 16.

1692. PHIPPS' WITCHCRAFT COURT at Salem, Mass.
(Twenty persons convicted of witchcraft and put to death.)

1694. DEATH OF MARY II., Queen of Great Britain,--Dec. 28.

1697. TREATY OF RYSWICK closed King William's War; no change in
territory,--Oct. 30.

1699. CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD, the pirate, at Gardner's Bay, Long Island.

[Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent use of hyphens has been retained as
in the original: Goodwife/Good-wife, firebrands/fire-brands,
roadside/road-side, firelight/fire-light, fireplace/fire-place,
hubbub/hub-bub, seafaring/sea-faring. Other punctuation and spelling has
been standardized.]

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