Enlightenment · North America · War
1675
King Philip's War Begins
June 20, 1675
Metacom, the Wampanoag sachem the English called King Philip, attacked the Plymouth settlement of Swansea after years of encroachment on his lands. The war that followed burned half the towns in New England to the ground and killed perhaps a tenth of the English colonists and a larger fraction of the Algonquian population.
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Also in 1675 (3 other events on record)
- Leibniz Invents Calculus · Europe · Science
- Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur Executed in Delhi · South Asia · Religion
- Royal Observatory at Greenwich Founded · Europe · Science
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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