North Americans celebrate Thanksgiving in honor of the historic dinner that took place in the small colony in October of 1621. Earlier in the year a treaty had been drawn up between the then-small English colony and the Wampanoag people native to that area.
Does it make you curious to know what was happening elsewhere in 1621?
- Sir Francis Bacon, scientist and Lord Chancellor of England, is put in prison on 23 counts of corruption.
- The Treaty of Khotyn is signed ending the Polish-Ottoman War…both sides claimed victory.
- In an unprecedented show of violence from the nation of the light blue flag, the Swedes occupied Riga (present day Latvia).
- Hugo de Groot escapes a sentence of “perpetual imprisonment” in the castle of Lovenstein by hiding in a chest supposed to be full of books.
- And Galileo invented the telescope.
Some historical theories state that the first outsiders to be welcomed by the Aboriginal Australians were in fact the Chinese. Perhaps a similar scene to the one at Plymouth unfolded in 1621 somewhere in Australia. Kangaroo Chow Mein? Wonton Bogong moths for dessert?
