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1696| 1607–1700 | North America, UK [food and drink] | Fruits introduced to the North American colonies from England include apples, which adapt well in New England, and peaches, which grow easily in Virginia and other warmer regions. Native vegetables like pumpkins, squash, and beans are favoured over European vegetables. | | 1640–1700 | North America [literature and language] | Literacy rates in the colonies, particularly in New England, are high relative to those in the Old World. Shipton, New England has a 95% literacy rate; males in Virginia have a literacy rate between 54% and 60%. | | 1689–1724 | UK [horse-racing] | The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa. | | August 1696 | France, Savoy, Italy [treaties] | King Louis XIV of France signs a peace treaty with Victor II Amadeus, Duke of Savoy, detaching the Duke from the Grand Alliance, which has alienated him by refusing to give him Milan, thus ending the war in Italy. By its terms the Duke regains Savoy, Nice, Susa, Casale, and Pinerolo, and his daughter is to be betrothed to the French king's grandson, Louis, Duke of Burgundy. |
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| In December of 1696, 14-year-old Daniel Markham joins his father
and pregnant stepmother Faith aboard his father's ship the Gray
Pearl to sail from Boston to Jamaica where his father has secured
plantation land. On a recent morning at his small office with a sweeping view of La
Paz, Ormachea took phone calls from clients interested in selling old
maps, a 1696 book on rural medicine and a 200-yearold gold necklace. On October 20, 1696 a now legendary resolution, `Let there be sea
ships' was passed by the Boyar Duma, heralding the beginning of the
Russian navy. |