WILLIAM III

1688  –  1702

The Glorious Revolution  -   Grand Alliance (King William’s War)  -  Peter the Great

Kang-his (Manchu Empire)  -  The Treaty of Nerchinsk (Russian-Chinese border)

Ashanti Empire (Osei Tutu)  -  Battle of the Boyne (Ireland)  -  Glencoe Massacre

(Campbells & MacDonalds)  -  Pueblo People (Mexico/Arizona)  -  Treaty of Ryswick

Battle of Zenta (Treaty of Karlowitz)  -  Man in the Iron Mask (Eustache Dauger)

The Great Northern War  -  The Battle of Narva (Charles XII of Sweden)

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William Dampier

(hydrographer)

Alexander Selkirk

Guillaume Delisle

(mapmaker)

William Kidd (piracy)

Thomas Savery (steam engine)

Denis Papin (“steam digester”)

Tull (horse-drawn seed drill)

Rudolf Camerarius

(Botanical Works)

Tournefort

(botanist)

John Locke

(Human Understanding)

Condilac (Sensations)

Salem Witch Trials

(Samuel Sewall)

Meidert Hobbema

(Avenue, Middleharnis)

Grinling Gibbons (woodcarver)

(St. Paul’s Cathedral)

Jean Tijou (ironworker)

(Hampton Court Palace)

Godfrey Kneller

(Hampton Court Beauties)

Hyacinthe Rigaud

(Louis XIV of France)

John Locke

(Civil Government)

William Congreve

(Way of the World)

Thomas Southerne

(Oroonoko)

Charles Perrault

(Tales of Olden Days)

Henry Purcell

(Dido & Aeneas)

Corelli

(violinist)

Pachelbel

(secular & sacred)

Couperin

(Harpsichord)