[Game] Count to 10,000

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1681 A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of "involving herself in politics."

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1682 - Vesuvius begins a period of volcanic activity lasting for 10 days.

(OMG my post count and the thread count match!)

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1683 The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

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1684 -  Marcantonio Giustinian is elected Doge of Venice

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1685 Louis XIV issues the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal, thereby depriving Huguenots of civil rights.

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1686 -  New York City and Albany, New York are granted city charters by the colonial governor.

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1687 Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, ushering in a tidal wave of changes in thought that would significantly accelerate the already ongoing scientific revolution by giving it tools that produced technologically valuable results, which had theretofore been otherwise unobtainable. See also Writing of Principia Mathematica.

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1688 - The Nine Years' War begins in Europe and America.

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1689  Pope Alexander VIII succeeds Innocent XI as the 241st pope. The English Bill of Rights is officially declared in force.

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1690 -  England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of the deposed James II.

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1691 Pope Innocent XII becomes the 242nd pope, succeeding Pope Alexander VIII.

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1692 - Salem Witch Trials

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1693 John Locke publishes his influential book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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Spare Corps Directive 1694: During temporal disturbances, no questions shall be raised about any crew member whose timesheet shows him or her clocking off 187 years before he clocked on.

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1695 The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland.