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Hace 2 días · He coined the term Aurora Borealis in 1619 from the Roman goddess of the dawn and the Greek name for the north wind, to describe lights in the northern and southern sky when particles from the solar wind energise the magnetosphere.
Hace 2 días · The most celebrated Black explorer of the Americas was Estéban, who traveled through the Southwest in the 1530s. The uninterrupted history of Blacks in the United States began in 1619, when 20 Africans were landed in the English colony of Virginia.
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Hace 4 días · In 1619, the English privateer White Lion, with Dutch letters of marque, brought 20 Africans seized Portuguese slave ship to Point Comfort. Several colonial colleges held enslaved people as workers and relied on them to operate. The development of slavery in 17th-century America
Hace 4 días · A survivor of the Virginia Company of London's ill-fated Third Supply Mission, whose flagship, the Sea Venture, was shipwrecked on Bermuda for ten months from 1609 to 1610, he is best remembered for presiding over the initial session of the first representative legislative body in Virginia in 1619.
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Hace 1 día · In 1619, the first captive Africans were brought via Dutch slave ship to Point Comfort (today Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia), thirty miles downstream from Jamestown, Virginia. They had been kidnapped by Portuguese slave traders. Virginia settlers treated these captives as indentured servants and released them after a number of years.
Hace 4 días · In astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler between 1609 and 1619, describe the orbits of planets around the Sun. The laws modified the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus , replacing its circular orbits and epicycles with elliptical trajectories, and explaining how planetary velocities vary.
Hace 2 días · In late August 1619, the frigate White Lion, a privateer ship owned by Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, but flying a Dutch flag arrived at Point Comfort, Virginia (several miles downstream from the colony of Jamestown, Virginia) with the first recorded slaves from Africa to Virginia.
