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| North America:The Charter of Privileges in the English colony of Pennsylvania. Fort Pontchartrain is established in the area of Detroit by Cadillac, who will later become a governor of the vast French Provence of Louisiana. The colony of Connecticut has a Collegiate School which will become Yale University. | |||||||||||
| Europe: The War of Spanish Succession begins a struggle between the Bourbons of France and the Habsburgs of Austria for the throne of Spain. Leopold I heads the Holy Roman Empire and Louis XIV leads France. Charles XII of Sweden invades Poland. Frederick I crowns himself as the first Prussian King. Spanish and Portuguese Jews fleeing the Inquisition are settling in England. Pirate William Kidd is hung in London | |||||||||||
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Iberville returns to Biloxi. when he arrives with two ships, the Renommee, under his personal command, and the Palmier, commanded by his brother Joseph (Sieur de Serigny). During his absence Sauvolle has died and the colony is reduced to 150 settlers, all of whom were in great distress. Most of the colonists prefer adventure to agriculture and they spend their time seeking gold, jewels or valuable furs among the natives. They do find pearls of an inferior quality and buffalo hides, an object of curiousity among the Europeans, but few of them are willing to perform the crude labor necessary to thrive in the new colony. |
| Based on the explorations ofIberville and Bienville, missions in the Illinois territory and the establishment of Fort Pontchartrain by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac near present day Detroit, Louisiana becomes a province of France including most of the land drained by the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers. |
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