Also Within this year in history
Also Within this year in history
In a year marked by exploration, colonization, religious conflict and scientific progress, the Pilgrims made their first landfall in North America, arriving in what is now Massachusetts aboard their ship, the Mayflower. In Europe, the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict largely between Catholic and Protestant rulers, entered a third year, on its way to becoming one of the longest and bloodiest conflicts in history. And on a happier note, an English traveler visiting Turkey recorded seeing the earliest known children’s merry-go-round.
The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts, 1620. Painting by by William Halsall, 1882. (Photo by Barney Burstein/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
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