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).
1) 1681- William Penn and the Quakers found Pennsylvania
2) 1683- German families arrive in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements. William Penn's offer of 5,000 acres of land in the colony of Pennsylvania and the freedom of religion was what created their interest in the colony.
3) 1684- June 21, King Charles II revoked the 1629 Massachusetts Bay Colony charter.
4) 1688- February 18, Quakers in Germantown, Pa., adopted the fist formal antislavery resolution in America. However, during the 1680s slavery was spreading throughout the other colonies.
5) 1689- "Memorable Providences, Related to Witchcrafts and Possessions," was published by Cotton Mather, this later contributed to the hysteria that led to the Salem witch trials of 1692.
6) 1689-1697- The Abnaki War, better known as King William's War. It was the first of the colonial wars between France and England in America, putting the English and Iroquois allies against the French and Abnaki allies. The Abnakis were a powerful tribe from Maine. King Williams War was a component of the European War of the League of Augsburg and was caused in part on the rivalry that was growing between France and England over the control of North America.
7) 1689- April 19, Residents of Boston ousted their governor, Edmond Andros.
8) 1689-1691- Leislers Rebellion takes place in New York, caused by hostility between landholders and merchants
1680- Anton van Leeuwenhoek is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
1682- The Anatomy of Plants by Nehemiah Grew points out male and female parts of flowers and differing structures of roots and stems.
1683- Bacteria is observed by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
I never knew that clocks with minute hands were invented way back then...And, ahhh biology-related stuff! ... sorry, I couldn't find anything else on this time period.
... sorry, I couldn't find anything else on this time period.
