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Hace 3 días · People began hoarding precious silver as there was progressively less of it, forcing the ratio of the value of copper to silver into a steep decline. In the 1630s a string of one thousand copper coins equaled an ounce of silver; by 1640 that sum could fetch half an ounce; and, by 1643 only one-third of an ounce.
Hace 3 días · Li Zicheng rebelled in the 1630s in Shaanxi in the north, while a mutiny led by Zhang Xianzhong broke out in Sichuan in the 1640s. Historians estimated that up to one million people were killed in this self-proclaimed emperor's reign of terror.
- 7 May 1618 – 13 August 1683
Hace 2 días · Despite fresh Spanish successes in the mid-1630s – in particular, the triumph of Philip's government in raising a fresh Spanish army, marching it into Germany to defeat the Swedish-led Protestant forces at the Battle of Nördlingen in 1634 – the increased tensions with France made war between the two Catholic states increasingly inevitable.
Hace 4 días · The ship money assessments of the 1630s ranked the taxable capacity of Beverley below that of Doncaster and Leeds, and during the early 1640s local warfare may have caused further impoverishment. The main continuing problem was the absence of industry.
Hace 4 días · During this period there are two main patterns of witchcraft prosecution that demand explanation – the lull in prosecutions during the 1630s, and the localised episodes of witch-hunting that took place during the later 1640s.
Hace 5 días · Burgess’ discussion of the Stuarts is dominated by this rosy picture of compromise and consensus during the Union debates; the bitter disputes of the 1620s and 1630s are barely mentioned at all. Indeed, intellectual and political conflict are notably absent from the book as a whole, and the reader is left wondering how a civil war could possibly have occurred (and Burgess makes no attempt to ...
Hace 5 días · Bound for New England. Weymouth, 20 th of March 1635. 1 Joseph Hull, of Somerset, a Minister, aged 40 years. 2 Agnes Hull, his wife, aged 25 years. 3 Joane Hull, his daughter, aged 15 years. 4 Joseph Hull, his son, aged 13 years. 5 Tristram, his son, aged 11 years. 6 Elizabeth Hull, his daughter, aged 7 years. 7 Temperance, his daughter, aged 9 ...
