May 14 Turkish great Köprülü attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers

May 28 The first Baptist Church is organized (Boston)

Jan 21 Count Miklós of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army

Sep 08 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers

Sep 08 The British receive New Amsterdam from the Dutch, and later rename it to New York.

Sep 20 Maryland enacts first anti-amaglmation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women and black men

Oct 26 The British Marines are organized.

Mar 06 King Louis XIV &Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant

Mar 12 New Jersey becomes a British colony

Mar 12 First naturalization act in American colonies

Mar 24 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island