Mirabilis Member Years

There shall be initially 410 Mirabilis Members. Mirabilis is latin for miracle. The Mirabilis Members will each be unique in that they will adopt a year in the great American story.

1600s Pilgrimage
- 1600s
- 1610s
- 1620s
- 1630s
- 1640s
- 1650s
- 1660s
- 1670s
- 1680s
- 1690s
Small numbers of people courageously traveled across the seas to find a land of liberty.
1700s Revolution
- 1700s
- 1710s
- 1720s
- 1730s
- 1740s
- 1750s
- 1760s
- 1770s
- 1780s
- 1790s
A growing population and growing ideals led to a fight for liberty that paved the way for a great republic to be born.
1800s Rise
- 1800s
- 1810s
- 1820s
- 1830s
- 1840s
- 1850s
- 1860s
- 1870s
- 1880s
- 1890s
Innovation and progress led the formerly fledging colonies to rise to being a significant player on the international stage.
1900s Perserverance
- 1900s
- 1910s
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
A depression bookended by two world wars was the crucible for what some called "The Greatest Generation" in America.
2000s Present
- 2000s
- 2010s
A tale of two worlds: unprecedented opportunities on the horizon but tempestuous global politics mean the fight for liberty has never been more important.

1670

Charles Town settlement established between Ashley and Cooper Rivers

1671

Rhode Island became a haven for Baptists after the settlement of Roger Williams. In this year the Seventh Day Baptists found refuge there. Their distinctive was worshipping on Saturday, for which they had been persecuted in England.

1672

The Royal Africa Company given monopoly for English slave trade.

1673

Dutch forces retake New York from the English.

1674

Treaty of Westminster ends Anglo-Dutch War and the Dutch return all Dutch colonies in America to English rule

1675

Friends migration to Western Jersey and Pennsylvania begins
Warriors of Chief Metacom, known to the New England settlers as King Phillip, attack a Pilgrim settlement, killing several colonists. That initiates the bloodiest and most destructive war in New England History between the Wampanoags and allied tribes against Christian Indians, Mohegans, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Connecticut Colonies, about 3,500 fighters on each side.

1676

Nathaniel Bacon led rebellion against Governor Berkley in Virginia for not protecting the backcountry folk from Indian depredations. They drove Berkeley from Jamestown and burned the village. The revolt was suppressed by soldiers and sailors loyal to Berkley. Bacon died of dysentery that very year, and his followers broken up and defeated.

1677

Governor Berkely returned to Jamestown, hanged twenty-three rebels, and reestablished his policies for Virginia

1678

King Phillip’s War ended with his death at Miery Swamp in Rhode Island. The war cost the Indians of Metacom’s forces about 3,000 and the settlers about 1,000. With massacres, atrocities, burnings, and retribution, the war’s impact was felt in New England for generations.

1679

Habeaus Corpus Act is passed in England; In a little more than a century, the right becomes enshrined in the United States Bill of Rights.