King Philip’s War begins.

Retaliating for the execution of three Native Americans a few weeks earlier, Wampanoag warriors kill six European settlers in Swansea. The United Colonies, subsequently joined by Christian Native Americans, Mohawks, Mohegans, and Pequots then engage in a war with a federation of Algonquian tribes, which include the Wampanoags, Abenakis, Narragansetts, Nipmucks and Pocomtucks. During the conflict, more than half of all European settlements in New England are abandoned or destroyed and some 800 their settlers (as many as one in ten) are killed. Some 2,000 Native Americans (one in 10 of those in southern New England) are killed, another 3,000 die from sickness or starvation, and 1,000 are sold into slavery. The war ends in August 1676.*