The year is 1767! The Beast of Gévaudan rampages bucolic France, the Devonshire Colic sweeps through (you guessed it) Devonshire, Maria Josepha faces her worst fear, and the Timuca people encounter the devastating and abusive European colonizers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/beast-gevaudan-terrorized-france-countryside-180963820/ https://www.thecollector.com/beast-of-gevaudan/ https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/maria-theresia-of-austria/year-maria-theresa-tragic-death-maria-josepha/
https://creativehistorian.co.uk/blog/read_196169/almost-queens-maria-josepha-of-austria.html http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/minimed/DevonShireColicBaker.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791112310020
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1037515/?page=4 The Devonshire Colic, H.A. Waldron