1685. James II. succeeds his brother, Charles II., as King of England. Insurrection of the Earl of Argyll and the Duke of Monmouth. Defeat of Monmouth at Sedgemoor; his execution. 1686. Sir Edmund Andros is made Governor of New England. 1688. William of Orange lands in England; flight of James II. 1689. William and Mary are proclaimed King and Queen of England. England declares war against France. Victory of the Scottish Jacobites at Killiecrankie. Overthrow of Andros in New England. Beginning of King William’s War in America. 1690. The Orangemen in Ireland win the battle of the Boyne. Destruction of Schenectady by the French and Indians. Sir William Phips, commanding a New England expedition, captures Port Royal, and later makes a fruitless demonstration against Quebec. 1691. The Jacobites are overcome in Scotland. Surrender of Limerick, the last stronghold of James II. in Ireland. 1692. Union of the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies. Witchcraft delusion at Salem. 1693. The French Admiral Tourville defeats the English fleet off Cape St. Vincent. 1697. France makes peace at Ryswick with Holland, Spain, and England. Close of King William’s War in America. 1699. The French begin the settlement of Louisiana. 1701. Beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession. 1702. Death of William III. and accession of Queen Anne. Successful campaign of Churchill (Marlborough) in the Netherlands. Naval triumph of the English and Dutch over the Spanish and French at Vigo. Queen Anne’s War in America. French settlement in Alabama. 1704. The English are victorious over the French at the battle of Blenheim. Capture of Gibraltar by the English. Massacre of white settlers by the Indians at Deerfield, Massachusetts. 1706. Marlborough defeats the French and Bavarians at the battle of Ramillies. 1708. Victory of Marlborough and Prince Eugene, at Oudenarde, over the Dukes of Burgundy and Vendôme. 1711. Unsuccessful expedition of the English and New England forces under Walker against Canada. 1713. Treaty of Utrecht. Close of Queen Anne’s War in America. Acadia (Nova Scotia, etc.) ceded to England by France, which also restores the Hudson Bay region. The power of the Tuscarora Indians broken by the Carolinians. 1714. George I., Elector of Hanover, succeeds to the English Crown. 1715. Rebellion in Scotland and in the North of England in favor of James Edward Stuart, the Jacobite pretender. 1718. French settlement of New Orleans. 1720. Failure of Law’s Mississippi scheme in France. 1722. Establishment of the Moravian settlement in Pennsylvania under Count Zinzendorf. 1727. Accession of George II. 1728. Discovery of Behring’s Strait. 1729. Carolina, purchased by the English Crown, is divided into the royal provinces of North and South Carolina. 1730. Baltimore is laid out. 1732. Oglethorpe embarks from England to establish a settlement in Georgia. 1733. Founding of Savannah. 1741. New Hampshire is finally separated from Massachusetts.