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May 2 – Mary Rowlandson is ransomed from captivity by Native Americans by a subscription raised by women of Boston. May 19 – Peskeomskut Massacre: Battle of Turner's Falls – Captain William Turner leads a raid at first light on an encampment consisting mainly of women and children.
Oct 24, 2023 · Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was the most important microscopist of the Scientific Revolution. The Dutchman made over 500 microscopes, many with a magnification far superior to contemporary models. His discoveries include bacteria, protozoa, red blood cells, spermatozoa, and how minute insects and parasites reproduce.
- Mark Cartwright
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is known for his investigations using a microscope of his own design which allowed him to make discoveries such as protozoa...
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek invented the most powerful microscope then known, a device that used a glass bead instead of a flat lens.
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered various microscopic lifeforms and cells such as red blood cells.
Mar 3, 2021 · Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) was the first full-scale armed insurrection in Colonial America pitting the landowner Nathaniel Bacon (l. 1647-1676) and his supporters of black and white indentured servants and African slaves against his cousin-by-marriage Governor William Berkeley (l. 1605-1677) and the wealthy plantation owners of East Virginia.
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Metacom (born c. 1638, Massachusetts—died August 12, 1676, Rhode Island) was a sachem (intertribal leader) of a confederation of indigenous peoples that included the Wampanoag and Narraganset. Metacom led one of the most costly wars of resistance in New England history, known as King Philip’s War (1675–76).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 24, 2023 · Bacon’s Rebellion, fought from 1676 to 1677, was an uprising against Governor William Berkeley’s rule in colonial Virginia driven by an interplay of forces, including high taxes, falling tobacco prices, and escalating Anglo-Native conflicts along the western frontier. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century histories, novels, plays, textbooks ...
May 17, 2023 · On July 30, 1676, Nathaniel Bacon issued his “Declaration of the People of Virginia” and attacked Governor William Berkeley and his political allies. This illustration by Howard Pyle depicts Nathaniel Bacon leading his men.
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Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia was the first popular uprising in the American colonies. It was long viewed as an early revolt against English tyranny, which culminated in the war for independence one hundred years later.
