Category: 1600s
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The Treaty of Westphalia was Ratified, Ending the Thirty Years’ War Which Profoundly Changed the Balance of Power in Europe. October 24, 1648.
Image: Allegory of the Peace of Westphalia. (Public Domain) On this day in history, October 24, 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia was ratified, ending the Thirty Years’ War and profoundly changing the balance of power in Europe. The Thirty Years’ War was a religious dispute in the 17th century fought principally in central Europe. More…
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History Daily: September 6
BATTLE OF NORDLINGEN Image: The Battle of Nördlingen (Wikimedia Commons.) September 6, 1634, the Battle at Nördlingen took place in southern Germany: Imperial-Spanish force led by Ferdinand of Hungary and Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand heavily defeat a combined Swedish and German protestant army led by Gustav Horn and Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar during the Thirty Years’ War. This battle…
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First Africans in Virginia. August 20, 1619.
Image: “Landing Negroes at Jamestown from Dutch man-of-war, 1619”. This 1901 illustration’s caption is incorrect, as The White Lion was an English privateer operating under a Dutch letter of marque, and landed at nearby Old Point Comfort. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, August 20, 1619, twenty Africans, kidnapped by the Portuguese in Angola,…
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History Daily: August 19
OUTLAW JOHN WESLEY HARDIN IS MURDERED IN TEXAS Image: John Wesley Hardin’s post mortem photo. (Wikimedia Commons.) On August 19, 1895, John Wesley Hardin, one of the most vicious and prolific killers in the American Old West, is murdered by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. Born in Texas on May…
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History Daily: August 12
KING PHILIP’S WAR ENDS Image: Indians Attacking a Garrison House, from an Old Wood Engraving This is likely a depiction of the attack on the Haynes Garrison, Sudbury, April 21, 1676. (Wikimedia Commons.) On August 12, 1676, in colonial New England, King Philip’s War ended when Philip, chief of the Wampanoag tribe, was assassinated by a…
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History Daily: August 10
THE BATTLE OF SCHEVENINGREN Image: Naval battle near Ter Heijde on 10 August 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War. In the middle the Brederode, the Dutch flagship of Maarten Tromp is in combat with the English flagship Resolution under the command of admiral Monk. (Wikimedia Commons) The Battle of Scheveningen (also known as the Battle of Ter Heijde) was the final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch…
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