Alexander Selkirk has returned to privateering with…
1710 CE
Alexander Selkirk has returned to privateering with a vengeance. At Guayaquil in present-day Ecuador, he leads a boat crew up the Guayas River where several wealthy Spanish ladies have fled, and loots the gold and jewels they had hidden inside their clothing.
The death toll in Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia (both of which capitulate to the Russian tsar in 1710) totals up to seventy-five of the population between 1709 and 1711.
The plague, in addition to Damm, and Stettin, where two thousand people die, ravages Pasewalk from 1709 to 1710, killing sixty-seven percent of its inhabitants, ...