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Project 500 Years
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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 24, 2021
1695: Sketchy English pirate loots Mughal treasure ship, rapes & abuses passengers.
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1689: War of 4 empires against France (in Europe & N. America.) Mughals hire & use a fleet. The Iroquois’s take…
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1685: France introduces its ‘Code Noir’. England has a succession crisis.
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Jun 9, 2021
1680: Pueblo Uprising vs. Spanish in today’s New Mexico. A census in Barbados.
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May 23, 2021
1663: English empire in Africa, Carolinas, Caribbean, etc
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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 17, 2021
1657: Cromwell & the English Empire. Etc.
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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 10, 2021
1650: News from Netherlands, England, Scotland, Ireland, Bengal, West Indies- and Harvard
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