Submitted by acalefas on 3 February 2015 - 10:09am
The Schenectady Massacre saw a party of more than 200 French Canadian and allied Mohawk, Sault (Ojibwe), and Algonquin warriors attack the village of Schenectady in the colony of New York. Sixty residents were killed. The French raid was mounted in retaliation for the Lachine massacre, an attack by Iroquois forces on a village in Quebec.
Submitted by acalefas on 3 February 2015 - 10:07am
The Académie française begins work on Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, which is first published fifty-five years later, in 1694
Submitted by acalefas on 3 February 2015 - 10:06am
Louis XIV and Charles, Duke of Lorraine sign the Treaty of Montmartre, which granted the princes of the House of Lorraine membership to the royal house of France, in return for full cession of the duchy to the French crown.
Submitted by acalefas on 3 February 2015 - 10:05am
After several demonstrations of French military prowess earlier in the year, Leopold I finally agrees to the conditions proposed by Louis XIV to end the Dutch War, with the Treaty of Nijmegen.
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