Enlightenment · South America · War
1695
Zumbi of Palmares Killed
1695
Portuguese colonial forces tracked down and killed Zumbi, the last king of Quilombo dos Palmares, a free community of escaped enslaved Africans that had survived for nearly a century in the Brazilian interior. His head was displayed on a pike in Recife. Palmares, which had sheltered twenty thousand people at its height, passed into legend as a symbol of resistance.
In context
Also in 1695 (4 other events on record)
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Before and after in South America
- Before: 1654: Portuguese Retake Recife
- After: June 1726: Montevideo Founded
Before and after in War
- Before: 1692: Battle of La Hogue
- After: 1696: Peter the Great Captures Azov
Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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