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Hace 4 días · Albany. 14 May, 1696. Another man has been scalped over against the Patroon's Island, where there were three in all, two of them unarmed and one armed. He that had the arms was killed.
Hace 5 días · Minutes of a Court Martial held on the deserters, on 21st April, 1696, Colonel Richard Ingoldsby, President, two captains and five lieutenants members. The whole were found guilty and sentenced to be shot.
Hace 1 día · [citation needed] In mid-1696 the government issued a £500 bounty on Every's head and offered a free pardon to any informer who disclosed his whereabouts. The first worldwide manhunt in recorded history was underway.
Hace 1 día · In 1696, the Dutch territory of Drenthe made William its Stadtholder. In the same year, Jacobites plotted to assassinate William in an attempt to restore James to the English throne. The plan failed and support for William surged.
Hace 3 días · The poor were badged in 1707. The poor rate in 1696 was £58; £52 was spent on pensions. A rate at 4d. in the pound in 1706 raised £85, and another in 1717 raised £68. Not all was spent on the poor but other sums such as church sacrament offerings were given to them, for example in 1696-7.
Hace 4 días · Glorious Revolution. Toleration Act, (May 24, 1689), act of Parliament granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists (i.e., dissenting Protestants such as Baptists and Congregationalists). It was one of a series of measures that firmly established the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) in England.
Hace 4 días · Medieval Life and Times - Burned at the Stake (May 17, 2024) burning at the stake, a method of execution practiced in Babylonia and ancient Israel and later adopted in Europe and North America. death of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc being burned at the stake for heresy, May 30, 1431.
