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The Indian massacre of 1622 took place in the English colony of Virginia on March 22, 1621/22 ().English explorer John Smith, though he was not an eyewitness, wrote in his History of Virginia that warriors of the Powhatan "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell us"; [2] they then grabbed any tools or weapons available and killed all English ...
A 1628 woodcut by Matthaeus Merian published along with Theodor de Bry's earlier engravings in 1628 book on the New World. The engraving shows the March 22, 1622 massacre when Powhatan people attacked Jamestown and outlying Virginia settlements. Merian relied on de Bry's earlier depictions of the Native Americans, but the image is largely ...
The frontispiece of Mourt's Relation, published in London in 1622. The booklet Mourt's Relation (full title: A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth in New England) was written between November 1620 and November 1621, and describes in detail what happened from the landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims on Cape Cod in Provincetown Harbor ...
22 February – a patent is granted for Dud Dudley 's process for smelting iron ore with coke. 22 March – in the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (33% of the colony's population) and destroy the Henricus settlement. 22 April – Capture of Ormuz from the Portuguese by an Anglo-Persian ...
January 6 (probably) – The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, is opened with a performance of Ben Jonson 's The Masque of Augurs designed by the building's architect, Inigo Jones. March 12 – Teresa of Ávila (died 1582), devotional writer, is canonized by Pope Gregory XV. June – Lucas Holstenius arrives in Britain to gather material for ...
Frethorne was from the parish of St. Dunstan-in-the-East in London, where his family received poor relief. In 1622 he was indentured by the parish and sent to Virginia as a servant, arriving in December on the ship Abigail.[1] Textual analysis of his letters suggests he may have been around twelve years old at the time. [2]
1622 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1622nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 622nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1622, the ...
Robert Burton publishes his treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy. 1622. 6 January (probably) – the Banqueting House, Whitehall, is opened with a performance of Ben Jonson 's The Masque of Augurs designed by the building's architect, Inigo Jones. [10] 7 January – John Pym arrested for criticizing the King in Parliament.