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Thirteen years ago Colonial Sense went live, brought to life by Bryan Wright and Geoffrey Reiss in an effort to create an Early Modern info hub. Bryan was in charge of Content and Geoffrey handled tech/curating. It was supposed to be a business but never made it that far. It rarely made much money and was mostly a labor of love to keep up and, running, and updated frequently.
Thirteen years ago Colonial Sense went live, brought to life by Bryan Wright and Geoffrey Reiss in an effort to create an Early Modern info hub. Bryan was in charge of Content and Geoffrey handled tech/curating. It was supposed to be a business but never made it that far. It rarely made much money and was mostly a labor of love to keep up and, running, and updated frequently.
Daily Colonial Quote -More notable sayings can be found in the Colonial Quotes section |
| My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me. |
| — Thomas Moore |
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This Day in Early Modern History -- December 10thclick on for links for date verification; or go to the Timeline for more eventsEvents | ||||
| • 1508 | - | League of Cambrai signed (covenant against Venice) | ||
| • 1520 | - | Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demands he recant | ||
| • 1582 | - | France begins use of Gregorian calendar | ||
| • 1618 | - | Composer Giulio Caccini is buried in Venice | ||
| • 1626 | - | Edmund Gunter, inventor of the trigonometry concepts of cosine and cotangent, as well as numerous tools for computation, navigation and surveying, dies | ||
| • 1641 | - | Massachusetts is the first British North American colony to legalize African slavery | ||
| • 1652 | - | Naval Battle of Dungeness: Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet | ||
| • 1672 | - | New York Governor Francis Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York and Boston | ||
| • 1688 | - | King James II flees London | ||
| • 1690 | - | Massachusetts Bay becomes first American colonial goverment to borrow money | ||
| • 1710 | - | Battle of Villaviciosa: French beat Habsburgers | ||
| • 1745 | - | Charles Edward Stuart (aka Bonnie Prince Charlie)'s army draws into Manchester | ||
| • 1768 | - | First edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica published (Scotland) | ||
| • 1778 | - | John Jay is elected president of the Continental Congress | ||
| • 1799 | - | Metric system established in France | ||
| • 1810 | - | Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaux (Former US-slave) in first interracial World boxing championship (35th of 40 rounds) | ||
| • 1816 | - | Dutch regain Sumatra | ||
| • 1817 | - | Mississippi admitted as 20th state | ||
| • 1830 | - | Emily Dickinson is born in Amherst, MA | ||
| • 1831 | - | Spirit of the Times begins publishing (weekly sports magazine & horse racing sheet) | ||
| • 1845 | - | Robert W. Thomson, a Scottish engineer, receives a British patent for the world's first pneumatic tire | ||
Births | ||||
| • 1628 | - |  Jan Baptist Martin Wans -- Artists | ||
| • 1631 | - | Jean Baptiste de Champaigne -- Artists | ||
| • 1637 | - |  Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville -- Military • Governance | ||
| • 1645 | - | Maurits Post -- Architects | ||
| • 1658 | - |  Lancelot Blackburne -- Pirates • Clergy | ||
| • 1744 | - |  William Berczy -- Artists | ||
| • 1745 | - | Thomas Holcroft -- Writers | ||
| • 1798 | - |  George Fletcher Moore -- Explorers • Writers | ||
| • 1800 | - | Philippe Ricord -- Writers • Physicians | ||
| • 1805 | - |  William Lloyd Garrison -- Writers | ||
| • 1815 | - | Ada Lovelace -- Writers • Inventors | ||
| • 1823 | - |  Wilhelm Kuhe -- Composers | ||
Deaths | ||||
| • 1626 | - | Edmund Gunter -- Astronomers • Clergy • Scientists • Educators | ||
| • 1643 | - |  Herman Wrangel -- Military • Governance | ||
| • 1718 | - |  Stede Bonnet -- Pirates | ||
| • 1789 | - | William Pierce -- Military • Governance | ||
| • 1796 | - | Israel Jacobs -- Governance | ||
| • 1814 | - |  Jose Angel Lamas -- Composers | ||
| • 1815 | - | Henry Emlyn -- Writers • Architects | ||
| • 1838 | - | Augustus Earle -- Artists | ||
| • 1851 | - | Karl Drais -- Inventors | ||
Latest Broadsheets -- Daily news from around the world about the Early Modern EraOlder articles can be found in the Broadsheet Archive | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 08/24/2021 Did Martin Luther Write of the Plague, ‘I Shall Not Avoid Person or Place’? August 24, 2021, Snopes by Dan MacGuill The 16th century Reformation leader also condemned those who "distain the use of medicines" and "do not avoid places and persons infected by the plague." Claim: In 1527, Martin Luther wrote of the Black Death: "I shall ask God to mercifully protect us"; and "I shall not avoid person or place but will go freely." Rating: Correct Attribution | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 08/07/2021 Did George Washington Order Troops To Get Vaccinated Against Smallpox? August 07, 2021, Snopes by Dan Evon Washington wrote in 1777 that the Continental Army had more to "dread" from smallpox than from the "Sword of the Enemy." Claim: Gen. George Washington ordered troops to get vaccinated against smallpox during the Revolutionary War. Rating: Mostly True | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 12/25/2020 Krampus – The Half-Goat, Half-Demon Devil of Christmas December 04, 2020, HeritageDaily by Staff Around Christmastime, many European countries are celebrating Saint Nicholas Day, usually observed on the 6th December for the feast day of Nicholas of Myra. Saint Nicolas had many miracles attributed to his intercession, but is also known for his generous practice of gift-giving that gave rise to the traditional model of Santa Claus (“Saint Nick”) through Sinterklaas. Whilst Saint Nicolas rewards the well-behaved with gifts, children who misbehaved are visited by Krampus (sometimes with Saint Nicolas), a horned, anthropomorphic figure described as a “half-goat, half-demon” on Krampus Night or Krampusnacht (December 5th). | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 12/24/2020 The Forgotten History of Jingle Bells November 21, 2017, Now I Know by Dan Lewis The first episode of the Simpsons — Season 1, Episode 1 — debuted on December 17, 1989. Homer and Marge (with Maggie in tow) make their way to Springfield Elementary School for Lisa and Bart’s Christmas concert. Bart’s grade is singing a Christmas melody featuring the iconic song “Jingle Bells.” But Bart, as seen in this clip goes with some alternative lyrics — “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg; the Batmobile broke its wheel; the Joker got awa–,” resulting in him being pulled off-stage. Jingle Bells, the lesson we should learn, is a wholesome Christmas song, not one to be manipulated by a rascally fourth grader. But that lesson is wrong. Jingle Bells is neither a wholesome song nor about Christmas. | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/15/2020 Archaeologists dig to uncover one of America's first Black churches in Colonial Williamsburg September 17, 2020, NBC News by Jewel Wicker A gathering in 1776 on a plantation of enslaved and free Black people in colonial Virginia established what would become one of America's first known Black Christian congregations. Although Williamsburg's First Baptist Church has long abandoned its original sites, a group of archaeologists is digging to unearth clues into this early American group of worshippers. While worshippers met in defiance of laws barring Black people from meeting in large numbers, white landowner Jesse Cole could hear them from his home, and he often listened along with his wife. Cole offered the group a piece of property on Nassau Street to establish a physical church. By 1828, the church had a recorded 619 members. | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/13/2020 Thomas Jefferson Descendant Calls For Removal Of His Famous Ancestor’s Statues June 19, 2020, The Huffington Post by Jeremy Blum Shannon Lanier, a ninth-generation direct descendant of President Thomas Jefferson, believes that statues of the Founding Father would be better off in museums. Lanier, who works as a journalist and is related to Jefferson through the third president’s relationship with enslaved woman Sally Hemings, penned his thoughts in a Newsweek editorial, arguing that Jefferson was “a participant in the institution of slavery—perhaps the most notorious one among the Founding Fathers, not least because of the jarring contrast between what he practiced and what he preached.” | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/11/2020 The Forgotten American Explorer Who Discovered Huge Parts of Antarctica March 26, 2020, Smithsonian Magazine by Gillen D’Arcy Wood The early-1900s exploits of intrepid explorers like Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton captured the public imagination. With the benefit of cameras and deft handling of newspaper media, the Edwardian British explorers, alongside their Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen, established themselves as heroic polar pioneers. In the process, however, the south polar exploits of their American forerunner, Charles Wilkes, have been largely forgotten. It was the round-the-world expedition by Wilkes—whose scientific collection constituted the first treasures of the infant Smithsonian—that first established the continental dimensions of Antarctica. But in a twist of 19th-century international politics, that claim to Antarctica was denied to the Americans by the pole-hungry British. Fast forward to today, and the United States finds itself in another nationalistic race to capitalize on the frozen southern continent. This time, its sparring partner is China. | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/09/2020 America’s First Connoisseur May 21, 2020, The Paris Review by Edward White Among his many claims to distinction, Thomas Jefferson can be regarded as America’s first connoisseur. The term and the concept emerged among the philosophes of eighteenth-century Paris, where Jefferson lived between 1784 and 1789. As minister to France he gorged on French culture. In five years, he bought more than sixty oil paintings, and many more objets d’art. He attended countless operas, plays, recitals, and masquerade balls. He researched the latest discoveries in botany, zoology and horticulture, and read inveterately—poetry, history, philosophy. In every inch of Paris he found something to stir his senses and cultivate his expertise. “Were I to proceed to tell you how much I enjoy their architecture, sculpture, painting, music,” he wrote a friend back in America, “I should want words.” Ultimately, he poured all these influences into Monticello, the plantation he inherited from his father, which Jefferson redesigned into a palace of his own refined tastes. More than in its domed ceilings, its gardens, or its galleries, it was in Monticello’s dining room that Jefferson the connoisseur reigned. Here, he shared with his guests recipes, produce, and ideas that continue to have a sizable effect on how and what Americans eat. | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/07/2020 Mysterious, centuries-old rock inscription finally deciphered February 27, 2020, LiveScience by Mindy Weisberger A mysterious, 230-year-old rock inscription in a French harbor stumped translators for decades. But now, nearly a year after the launch of a contest to decipher the writing, experts have finally decoded its secret message. In May 2019, officials in the town of Plougastel-Daoulas in Finistère, France, challenged members of the public to interpret the 20-line carved message, Live Science previously reported. Etched into a stone in a cove that's accessible only at low tide, the writing included two dates — 1786 and 1787 — as well as letters and symbols such as a heart-topped cross and a ship. | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/05/2020 Pilgrim fathers: harsh truths amid the Mayflower myths of nationhood September 20, 2020, The Guardian (UK) by Carrie Gibson For a ship that would sail into the pages of history, the Mayflower was not important enough to be registered in the port book of Plymouth in 1620. Pages from September of that year bear no trace of the vessel, because it was only only 102 passengers and not cargo, making it of no official interest. The port book is one of the many surprising objects at Mayflower 400: Legend & Legacy, the inaugural exhibition of the Box in Plymouth, Devon, which will open to the public later this month, and which is part of the city’s efforts to mark the 400th anniversary of the ship’s Atlantic crossing. “This wasn’t a huge historic voyage in 1620. If anything, it was an act of madness because they were going at the wrong time of year into an incredibly dangerous Atlantic,” said the exhibition’s curator, Jo Loosemore. | |||
Colonial Sense Stats | ||
| Event Calendar Listings: 0 | Online Resources Links: 616 | Recipes: 482 |
| Census People: 11,727 | Pix: 5,465 (46.60%) | Countries: 10,930 (93.20%) | Dates: 4,077 (34.77%) | Bio: 10,497 (89.51%) | TLs: 1,426 (12.16%)/3,770 (48.75%) | Links: 19,342 (164.94%) | Gallery: 117 (1.00%) | Notes: 1,884 (16.07%) | ||
| Architecture: Fortifications: 142 | Pix: 2 (1.41%) | Countries: 142 (100.00%) | Dates: 0 (0.00%) | Bio: 88 (61.97%) | TLs: 2 (1.41%)/9 | Links: 118 (83.10%) | Gallery: 118 (83.10%) | Notes: 118 (83.10%) | ||
| Dictionary Entries: 1,409 | Broadsheet Archive: 3,215 | Food and Farming Items: 200 |
| Timeline Events: 7,734 Tagged: 6,399 (82.74%) With Links: 4,512 (58.34%) Total Links: 5,684 | ||
| Colonial Quotes: 3,327 | Trivia Challenge: 293 | Videos: 92 |
| Downloads: Articles: 9 Music: 12 Wallpaper: 6 Radio Shows: 5 | ||
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