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Nov 24, 2020 · Updated on November 24, 2020. Between 1626 and 1650, the new American colonies chafed at being so close to political rivals, and squabbled with one another over borders, religious freedom, and self-government. The key events during this time include the ongoing wars with Indigenous residents and disputes with the government of Charles I of England.
The Virginia government at Jamestown passes statutes and codes that differentiate between white indentured servants and blacks in permanent servitude. By the 1680s, permanent servitude has become even more identified with race. Governor Sir Francis Wyatt issues a proclamation limiting tobacco cultivation to not more than one thousand plants.
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- October: England passes the Navigation Act that forbids goods to be imported from the colonies to England in non-English ships or from locations other than where they were produced.
- April 4: New Amsterdam is given permission to form its own city government. May 18: Rhode Island passes the first law in America which prohibits enslavement, but is never enforced.
- The New England Confederation—a union of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies formed in 1643—plans to help England in the ongoing Anglo-Dutch Wars.
- The first Jewish immigrants arrive from Brazil and settle in New Amsterdam. October: The new governor of Maryland, William Fuller (1625–1695), nullifies the 1649 Toleration Act which gave Catholics the right to practice their religion.
Oct 1, 2008 · The historical record reveals at least one war in progress between the states of Europe in every year between 1611 and 1669. Beyond Europe, over the same period, the Chinese and Mughal empires fought wars continuously, while the Ottoman Empire enjoyed only seven years of peace.
- Geoffrey Parker
- 2008
1640-1649. 1640 - The first book is printed in North America, the Bay Psalm Book, at Cambridge for the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. December 10, 1641 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes its first set of laws in the Body of Liberties. 1641 - Witchcraft is made a capital crime in English law.
1626 The Dutch Purchase Manhattan Dutch colonists led by Peter Minuit purchase Manhattan Island from the chiefs of the Wappinger Confederacy and establish the colony of New Amsterdam.
World History 1625-1650 AD. 1626 AD Battle of Dessau -One of the major battes of the Thirty Years War took place at the Battle of Dessau, in present day Germany. Catholic forces led by Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius Von Waldstien defeated the Count Mansfield and the Protestant forces. Mansfield retreated to Hungary. 1627 AD Manchus Invade Korea - The ...
