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Project 500 Years
Helena Cobban looks at seminal developments in world history, from 1415 till today, with periodic musings on what it all means.
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Jun 1, 2021
1672:Anglo-French attack on Dutch UP’s
Just two years earlier, in 1670 CE, France’s King Louis XIV had persuaded England’s King…
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May 24, 2021
1664: France’s Louis XIV goes global. English seize two Dutch colonies. Hindu warlord sacks Surat.
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May 21, 2021
1661: Portuguese princess brings fab colonial dowry to England. Koxinga beats Dutch in Taiwan.
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May 16, 2021
1656: Dutch in China, Gold Coast as Cromwell makes war on Spain. Etc.
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May 15, 2021
1655: News from Philippines, Chile, Amsterdams old & new, Tunis. But mainly Jamaica.
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May 13, 2021
1653: News from London, ‘New Amsterdam’, Scheveningen, & Kerala
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May 8, 2021
1648: Peace of Westphalia sets inter-state rules for >370 years. (Etc.)
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May 6, 2021
1646: Parliament wins 1st round of English civil war, Dutch challenge Spain in E. Indies, etc
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1645: Portuguese start to re-take Dutch Brazil, English Parliament founds new army, & more.
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May 4, 2021
1644: Upheavals in China, a Powhatan rising in Virginia, etc.
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