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1630. 8 April – Winthrop Fleet: The ship Arbella and three others set sail from the Solent with 400 passengers under the leadership of John Winthrop headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America as part of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640); seven more, with another 300 aboard, follow in the next few weeks.
Feb 9, 2010 · The first colonists to Maryland arrive at St. Clement’s Island on Maryland’s western shore and found the settlement of St. Mary’s. In 1632, King Charles I of England granted a charter to ...
e. In the early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, almost all in New England. Puritans were intensely devout members of the Church of England who believed that the Church of England was insufficiently reformed, retaining too much of its Roman Catholic doctrinal roots, and who therefore opposed royal ...
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, KG (13 April 1593 ( N.S. ) – 12 May 1641), was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War. He served in Parliament and was a supporter of King Charles I. From 1632 to 1640 he was Lord Deputy of Ireland, where he established a strong authoritarian rule.
Mary Tudor’s marriage to Philip of Spain in the 1550s was intended to unite the Spanish and English thrones. If that had succeeded, the history of the British Isles would have been completely different. The marriage of James IV and Margaret Tudor in 1503 had been intended to cement a ‘treaty of perpetual peace’.
While the Puritans of the 17th century, fleeing authorities in England, had been inwardly focused, the Protestant interest looked to the British nation as the last great hope for Protestants to defeat the Catholic menace. They hoped that the defeat ofglobal Catholicism might herald the return of Christ. Any attempt precisely to mark the end of ...
Nov 20, 2023 · The Slave Act of 1705 was a culmination of years of ever-changing (and worsening) laws regarding black indentured servants and slaves in the state of Virginia. Earlier laws imposed these oppressive conditions: 1662: A child was declared free or enslaved dependent on the status of his or her mother at the time of birth.
