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1685

European Powers Vie for the North American Supremacy | France in Canada, the Caribbean

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1685

South America & Caribbean:A French Code Noir issued this year will be ignored in most colonial plantations because it is too humane; as Guinea Company enters the lucrative slave trade.
North America:Events in North America this year influencing Louisiana; .
Europe: Charles II of England dies and is succeeded by his brother James II after a brief scuffle with Charles’ son James who is captured and executed; France bans all religions other than Catholicism, Hungenots leave France draining supply of craftsmen and seamen.
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