{"slug": "puritans", "label": "Puritans", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137073", "qid": "Q137073", "description": "subclass of English Reformed Protestants", "entries": 14, "years": 11, "span": [1604, 1690], "span_label": ["1604 CE", "1690 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Puritan"], "related": [{"slug": "massachusetts-bay-colony", "label": "Massachusetts Bay Colony", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "james-vi-and-i", "label": "James VI and I", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "bible", "label": "Bible", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rhode-island", "label": "Rhode Island", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "plymouth-colony", "label": "Plymouth Colony", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "old-style-and-new-style-dates", "label": "Old Style and New Style dates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "leiden", "label": "Leiden", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "massachusetts", "label": "Massachusetts", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "quebec", "label": "Quebec", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anglicanism", "label": "Anglicanism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "book-of-common-prayer", "label": "Book of Common Prayer", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "middle-ages", "label": "Middle Ages", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1604, "year_label": "1604 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 14", "text": "January 14 – The Hampton Court Conference is held between James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of the Puritans. Work begins on the Authorized King James Version of the Bible and revision of the Book of Common Prayer.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348862771#January–March", "title": "1604", "revid": 1348862771, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "At the behest of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Dr. Richard Vines, a physician, passes the winter of 1616–17 at Biddeford, Maine, at the mouth of the Saco River, that he calls Winter Harbor. This is the site of the earliest permanent settlement in Maine of which there is a conclusive record. Maine will become an important refuge for religious dissenters persecuted by the Puritans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#Date_unknown", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 25", "text": "December 25 – \"Father Christmas\" is a main character of Christmas, His Masque, written by Ben Jonson and presented at the court of King James I of England. Father Christmas is considered a papist symbol by Puritans, and later banished from England until the English Restoration. The traditional, comical costume for this jolly figure, as well as regional names, indicate that he is descended from the presenter of the medieval Feast of Fools.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#November-December", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › November-December"}}, {"year": 1620, "year_label": "1620 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 (July 22 OS) – The ship Speedwell departs Delfshaven with English separatist Puritans from Leiden bound to rendezvous with the Mayflower; on August 5 (July 26 OS) she anchors in Southampton Water.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363705489#July–September", "title": "1620", "revid": 1363705489, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1628, "year_label": "1628 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 6", "text": "September 6 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352890088#July–September", "title": "1628", "revid": 1352890088, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1629, "year_label": "1629 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11 – Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640): Around 350 English Puritans on six ships, led by Francis Higginson in the Lyon's Whelp, sail from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, heading to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America. They arrive on June 19.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365103352#January–March", "title": "1629", "revid": 1365103352, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1650, "year_label": "1650 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Puritans chop down the original Glastonbury Thorn in England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373388330#Date_unknown", "title": "1650", "revid": 1373388330, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1650, "year_label": "1650 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Puritans chop down the original Glastonbury Thorn.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737244#Undated", "title": "1650 in England", "revid": 1353737244, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1654, "year_label": "1654 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 20", "text": "20 March – establishment of Commission of Triers which will fill empty Anglican benefices with Puritan ministers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737271#Events", "title": "1654 in England", "revid": 1353737271, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1663, "year_label": "1663 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Publication at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the \"Eliot Indian Bible\" (Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God), which becomes the first complete Bible published in the Americas, a translation by English-born Puritan missionary John Eliot of the Geneva Bible, from English into the Massachusett language (Natic or Wômpanâak) variety of the Algonquian languages.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988068#Date_unknown", "title": "1663", "revid": 1365988068, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1674, "year_label": "1674 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet (b. 1608)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128656#Deaths", "title": "1674", "revid": 1365128656, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1680, "year_label": "1680 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 24", "text": "24 January – William Harris, one of the four English Puritans who established the Plymouth Colony and then the Providence Plantations at Rhode Island in 1636, is captured by Algerian pirates when his ship is boarded while he is making a voyage back to England. After being sold into slavery on 23 February, he remains a slave until ransom is paid. He dies in 1681, three days after his return to England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737535#Events", "title": "1680 in England", "revid": 1353737535, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1680, "year_label": "1680 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – William Harris, one of the four English Puritans who established the Plymouth Colony and then the Providence Plantations at Rhode Island in 1636, is captured by Algerian pirates, when his ship is boarded while he is making a voyage back to England. After being sold into slavery on February 23, he remains a slave until ransom is paid. He dies in 1681, three days after his return to England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365997201#January–March", "title": "1680", "revid": 1365997201, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1690, "year_label": "1690 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 6", "text": "October 6 – Massachusetts Puritans, led by Sir William Phips, besiege the city of Quebec; the siege ends in failure after six days.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369486553#October–December", "title": "1690", "revid": 1369486553, "section": "Events › October–December"}}]}