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Queen Elizabeth of England hires the British East India Company to compete with the Dutch, the Dutch controlled the trade on nutmeg from the Banda Islands.
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europe revoloution
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Henry IV of France, king who is considered religiously tolerant, is assassinated by François Ravaillac, the assassin is considered very religios and unstable.
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african slaves are being transported to the West Indies to replace those Africans who have died there. The sugar industry is killing them from over working the slaves.
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A fort is founded at what today is Montreal.
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The Dutch East India Company gain control in Africa, near the Cape of Good Hope, to serve Dutch ships passing to and from the East.
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Cromwell dies and the English are happy. They have had their fill of Puritanism before he died.
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the Carolina colony, Puritans found Charles Town Charleston named for Charles II.
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In London a woman is flogged for the crime of having become involved in politics.
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Peters brother, Ivan, dies At the age of 24. Peter becomes Russias new king.
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Life expectancy at birth in England is 36 years.
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The English use a engine to pump water out of a mine. It is the first functionable engine.
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Plague arrives at France the last of the great bubonic plagues in Western and Central Europe.
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The Russians switch sides and are no longer allies
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Nader Shah of Iran wars against the Ottoman Turks. (middleeast conflict continues till this day)
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An average of 60,000 slaves are being exported from Africa per year.
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During the Seven Years War, Elizabeth of Russia dies. The new ruler, king Peter III takes Russia out of the war against Prussia. Having bad luck of Sweden also withdraws from the war. France talks Spain into joining the war on its side against Britain.
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Oxygen is discovered by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Europeans have been investigating the properties of gasses and have now discovered oxygen.
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In Thailand, Rama I reigns. He begins the Chakri dynasty, to last into the twenty-first century.
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George Washington's dentist creates a dental drill powered by a foot peddle.
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Around 150,000 Hawaiians die from the Great Sickness unknown disease brought by Europeans.
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In the Holy Roman Empire, hundreds are being burned as being accused as witches.
