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.
1720
The Tuscarora people leave North Carolina due to English settlement
1721
South Carolina incorporated as a colony of Great Britain.
Church-wide religious revivals begin in Connecticut.
1722
Benjamin Franklin publishes the “Silence Dogood” Letters in Philadelphia.
The Brown Bess musket entered service in the British Army and remained the primary military musket for more than a hundred twenty years in England and America.
1723
Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17, having run away from his Boston family to seek new beginnings.
1724
Well over half of the people in Southern Anglican parishes attended church regularly, many of the churches were filled to capacity.
1725
Black slave population in the American colonies reaches 75,000
1726
Piracy on the high seas all but eliminated by this year through actions of the Royal Navy.
1727
The First Amish arrived in America
Coronation of English King George II. He will lead the nation to war which will cost the Americans years of fighting the Canadian French and their Indian allies for the third time in thirty years.
1728
Death of the Rev. Cotton Mather, author of hundreds of pamphlets, sermons, books, and other works on many subjects of scientific, astronomical, family, and theological interest. Probably the most influential minister in American history in his day.
1729
North Carolina became a Royal Colony.
City of Baltimore founded