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| South America & Caribbean:Events of this year in this region influencing Louisiana. |
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| North America:Casette girls, 25 young French Women, arrive at Mobile with small trunks filled with dowry gifts from Louis XIV. French troops and Indian allies attack English settlers at Deerfield in the Massachusetts colony. The weekly News-Letter at Boston is the first American newspaper. |
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| Europe: Charles XII of Sweden uses bribery and intimidation to fix the election of Stanislas Leszczynski as king of Poland. Stanislas is the future father-in-law of Louis XV of France. England takes Gibraltar. Marlborough wins at Blenheim as French forces retreat to the Moselle River. Jonathan Swift; Arabian Nights translated to English; Christopher Wren. |
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25 Casette girls arrive in Mobile with dowry gifts from Louis XIV. |
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