Post 10 of the most important events in the decade assigned. Explain each briefly (descriptively and in context of other events, individuals and issues of that time).
1670- Cafe Procope was the first cafe in Paris, began serving ice cream. 1670- Minute hands on watches first appeared. 1670- French explorer Rene Robert Cavelier (LaSalle) explored the Great Lakes region of the New World. 1672- The 1st copyright law was enacted by Massachusetts. 1672- Christian Huygens of Holland discovered white polar caps on Mars. 1672- The Dutch raid English ships in Plymouth roadstead. 1672- The construction of Plymouth Fort started. 1673- Scientific research began in Cuba. 1675- France and Poland formed an alliance. 1676- The 1st colonial prison was organized at Nantucket, Mass. 1678- Roman Catholics were banned from English parliament. 1679- Britian's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act.
baon's rebellion was led by nathaniel bacon in virginia. bacon demanded that a militia be formed to fight the hostile indians in the area. poor framers could only afford land in these hostile areas, which made it difficult to get goods to market. this is why bacon called for the militia. bacon was granted permission to rise up a following to push back the native americans, after this he and his followers than ran the governor out of town and seized jamestown. when the british tried to get back the town, bacon burned it to the ground. he died shortly after gaining control of the town and the british took back over. the rebels were alowed to apologize and were pardoned.
King Philip's War was an armed conflict between Indian inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Indian allies from 16751676. Nearly one in twenty persons overall among Indians and English were wounded or killed. King Philip's war was one of the bloodiest and most costly in the history of America.
