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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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Sep 19, 2021
France’s “historic position” in the Indo-Pacific region
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Aug 30, 2021
Portugal and the origins of “the West”
1492? How about 1415 CE?
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Jun 23, 2021
1694: Brazil destroys large maroon community. English slavetrader documents his work. Some news from Europe.
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Jun 21, 2021
1692: Many developments worldwide on 200th anniversary of 1492!
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Jun 18, 2021
1689: War of 4 empires against France (in Europe & N. America.) Mughals hire & use a fleet. The Iroquois’s take…
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Jun 14, 2021
1685: France introduces its ‘Code Noir’. England has a succession crisis.
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Jun 7, 2021
1678: Formerly enslaved Kongolese run a free enclave in Brazil. Franco-Dutch treaty. Dutch war in Java. Etc.
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Jun 4, 2021
1675: Indigenes and enslaved resist English colonists in New England, Caribbean
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May 28, 2021
1668: A Welsh pirate in the Caribbean; news from Morocco, Bombay
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May 27, 2021
1667: An Anglo-Dutch peace, a Dutch-French war, & conflict in the Lesser Antilles
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