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★13 Aug 1650
General George Monck founded "Monck's Regiment of Foot", the predecessor to the Coldstream Guards, the oldest regiment in the British Regular Army in continuous active service.

★28 Nov 1660
At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society.

★26 Sep 1687
The Parthenon in Athens was partially destroyed during an armed conflict between the Venetians under Francesco Morosini and Ottoman forces.

★21 Aug 1689
Jacobite risings: Jacobites supporting James VII of Scotland clashed with a regiment of Covenanters supporting William of Orange, in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.

★16 Dec 1689
The Parliament of England adopted the Bill of Rights, declaring that Englishmen possessed certain positive civil and political rights.

★10 Jun 1692
Bridget Bishop became the first person executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials.

★18 May 1695
An earthquake measuring Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.

★26 Mar 1697
The Safavid Empire began a four-year occupation of the Ottoman city of Basra on the Persian Gulf.

★20 Sep 1697
The first of a series of treaties comprising the Peace of Ryswick was signed between France and the Grand Alliance, ending the Nine Years' War.

★26 Jan 1699
The signing of the Treaty of Karlowitz to conclude the Great Turkish War marked the end of Ottoman control in much of Central Europe and the rise of the Habsburg Monarchy as the dominant power in the region.

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