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Recently, and primarily through the efforts of Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, we have gained substantial information concerning the number and role of Africans in Mexico. 3 It is now fairly certain that in the period 1519-1650 the area received at least 120,000 slaves, or two-thirds of all the Africans imported into the Spanish possessions in America. 4 The early development of Negro slavery in ...
Events. 1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee ( Iroquois) make war on Hurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650–51), Erie (1653–56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680–84), and members of the Mahican confederation.
A hailstorm around Stuttgart in 1626 damaged crops. Throughout south-west Germany hard and late frosts sharply reduced harvests. By late spring harvest failures and food shortages had spread. Lean and hungry years, inflation, and food shortages preceded the surge in witch trials between 1626 and 1630 across south-west Germany and Franconia.
The Netherlands began its colonization of the Americas with the establishment of trading posts and plantations, which preceded the much wider known colonization activities of the Dutch in Asia. While the first Dutch fort in Asia was built in 1600 in present-day Indonesia, the first forts and settlements along the Essequibo River in Guyana date ...
The conflict broadens as backcountry settlers become increasingly discontented with Berkeley's administration, especially its Indian policy. Thomas Mathew, a Burgess from Stafford and witness to the ensuing events, writes an account of the rebellion for Lord Oxford in England in 1705.
1670-1679. May 2, 1670 - Hudson's Bay Company founded as English firm to combat New France in Canadian fur trade. Company would eventually flourish as dominant commercial enterprise from the colonies of the East Coast of America to the Pacific Northwest territories of Washington and Oregon, as well as British Columbia. More.
1626: Peter Minuit ... the northeast coast of south America. ... Go to Descartes, René (1596–1650) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.)
