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Technology Project #3
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Captain William Kidd is hanged in London. -
Denmark, Russia and Poland challenge Sweden's hegemony in the Baltic Sea area due to the recent death of Sweden's king. Soon the Great Northern War begins. Charles XII, Sweden's young new king, demonstrates his power by leading an army into Poland. He routes a combined German and Polish force and putting someone on the throne in Poland, a king of his choosing (Stanislaus Leszczynski, who becomes Stanislaus I). -
Mount Fuji erupts, causing the ash to float down on the city of Edo sixty miles to the north. -
The death of six whites and the execution of twelve slaves were a result from a slave rebellion in New York. -
Britain and Spain sign a 30-year contract, where Britain is to have a monopoly in supplying Spain with slaves for the Americas. -
The plague arrives at the port of Marseilles, France; which is the last of the great bubonic plagues in Western and Central Europe. -
Nader is crowned King of Iran. -
France invades Belgium. -
Parliament passes the Jewish Naturalization Act, on July 1 in Great Britain. This ends discrimination against Jews. -
King George has declared the thirteen colonies "free and independent." France and Spain also sign articles of peace with Britain. In Paris, delegates from the colonies sign the Treaty of Peace.