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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 6, 2021
1677: An Anglo-Dutch dynastic marriage. A Treaty in Virginia.
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Jun 5, 2021
1676: A settler-extremist rampage in Virginia. The last months of Metacomet’s Uprising. Other world news.
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May 22, 2021
1662: ‘Slave codes’ in Barbados and Virginia
1662 saw the tail end of many of the stories I covered last year. (King Charles…
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Apr 9, 2021
1619: Slavery & ‘democracy’ arrive in Virginia. New Dutch base in E. Indies. Etc…
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Apr 3, 2021
1613: Dutch in E. Indies, Caribbean. Romanovs, Ottomans, French, English…
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Mar 27, 2021
1606: Dutch vs. Portuguese in E. Indies, England starts “Virginia” colonization, etc.
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